Fourth Grader Suspended After Refusing to Answer Exam Question [zero tolerance alert]

zerointelligence ^ | Nov. 3 | zerointelligence

[metmom]

LOL! Actually, they'd probably love it. The counselling would be reserved for the kids who wrote about the Rapture.

[wintertime]

And there are even more gullible and moronic people that think that if they get some bible class in their high school that they'll be all set.

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Absolutely on the mark! They are fools!

Anyone who thinks that government education can be reformed is a fool!

There is only one solution: We must begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education. Gradually parents must be expected to pay for their child's education, and charity extended to those child who are poor.

[Eepsy]

Why the heck are kids being assessed on "creative writing" in the first place? Isn't there a less subjective manner of measuring writing skills?

[wintertime]

That's cause Daddy just threw him off the roof......

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No mention of a daddy in this article. If there were a daddy, perhaps the principal would have handled this differently.

[Doc Savage]

I think he should be returned to Cuba...? oh wait, wrong kid.

[Sender]

LOL yeah, that sounds like what a boy would write.

[G Larry]

Follow the money!

Schools are paid on the basis WASL tests completed.

[UnsinkableMollyBrown]

The majority of kids are never going to be home schooled. That is a pipe dream. My concern is about what kind of people are being turned out by the education system. Parents who homeschool seem to take a hands off attitude for everyone else's children, because theirs are safe at home. My position is that we are treading an extremely dangerous and volatile path with the homeschoolers hunkering down, and just letting the powers that be have their way with everyone else's kid.

[Dead Corpse]

What if he has said... "I quickly leveled the barrel, exhaled, and lead the principle by six inches...."

ROTFLMAO...

You owe me a new keyboard... ;-)

[Doc Savage]

"You're driving through a seedy part of town when you see your principal making a meth buy in an alley. He's also having sex with hooker who's on her knees. You recognize her as the Prsident of the local NEA. He's see you and fires off several rounds from an Uzi wounding you. Write what happens next!"

[wintertime]

How is this kid is going to deal with his first dumb boss or radical professor (when you need the grade) Isn't part of intelligence Problem Solving not creating stupid problems for yourself?

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So....when did it become the responsibility for the government to train docile workers?

What is the mission of the government schools? Is it creating obedient workers who will bow to dumb bosses?

True education in our homeschool, which included character development, trained up children who would quit a job with a dumb boss, find another job, or start their own business.

Now, of the two, which is better for America?

[libstripper]

He should have just written it was obvious she was picked up by a tornado and he was horrified by how gross it would be when she went SPLAT as she came down and all the putty knives and Brillo pads that would be wasted recovering her remains. Either that, or he could have theorized that she'd sat down in a fighter plane's cockpit and just pulled the ejection seat's lever with the same results.

[Elyse]

I'm sorry am I missing something?

I feel like I'm missing something, too. I did essays on stupid topics all the time when I was a kid in school. I think it's ridiculous that he outright refused to write anything after being asked multiple times and his mother is whining that the poor little thing couldn't answer it. I have a feeling this wasn't his first time in the principal's office.

[wintertime]

By the way , I'm teaching 10 years and male 41K . I'd like to know how to get the big money you speak about .
( actually in my district kissing the asses of the DEM politicians and buying political dinner tickets can move you into a great position)

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Why are you supporting,contributing to, aiding, and abetting a totally corrupt system?

Why shouldn't we blame teachers? It is teachers and principals who open the doors to these houses of ignorance and dysfunction every day! It is time to blame you and every one of you who do this!

[wintertime]

My point was that the public school system is broke.

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Sonic109 and others like him go to school every day open the doors to a totally corrupt system. It dishes out dysfunction every day to our nation's children.

If Sonic109, and others like him, don't know this then his should know it.

It is time to put blame where it is deserved. Blame the teachers and principals who daily turn the keys on these centers of ignorance and abuse.

[wintertime]

There are some major problems with the education system . Teachers are not the whole problem as most people would like to think. Many think that a classroom still resembles something out of "Leave it to Beaver " TV show days. We're dealing with one parent kids, crack babies , kids with parents who don't speak English and have little schooling themselves, young teachers who had a Marxist , feel good college education and political favoritism beyond belief.PC values and parents who ALWAYS think their kid is right is a problem as well. Most critics of teachers wouldn't last a day in an urban classroom.It's WAY different then you think these days. ( Sonic)

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Sonic

What you have described is chaos. It is complete breakdown and dysfunction. It HURTS kids. There is NO accountability.

By working and collecting a paycheck you are allowing this abomination to HURT children.

[metmom]

My position is that we are treading an extremely dangerous and volatile path with the homeschoolers hunkering down, and just letting the powers that be have their way with everyone else's kid.

Oh? So home schoolers should feel obligated to send their kids to public school to get ruined just because others kids are? No thanks. Ruin your own kids if you want, don't try to force me to ruin mine.

It's bad enough that as many kids as there are, are stuck in that mess but homeschoolers sending their kids to school isn't going to fix anything; it's just going to result in more messed up kids. At least now, there's hope for the future as well adjusted, educated homeschooled kids enter the workforce.

[metmom]

In several paragraphs write what happens next.

This is also one thing that stuck out at me. The kid here wasn't being asked for a couple sentences; they were asked for several paragraphs. For the life of me, I can't figure out how someone could stretch such a stupid topic out that long to begin with. That's good enough reason not to bother answering, too, IMO.

[Calvin Locke]

Probably a grad of Columbia's Teachers College too.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

If you don't know the answer to an unaswerable question do you lie about it? The kid left a test answer blank that's it. The moron in authority who yelled at and suspended the kid for five days over it deserves the criticisim here, not a nine year-old.