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Fourth Grader Suspended After Refusing to Answer Exam Question [zero tolerance alert]
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| Nov. 3
| zerointelligence
Posted on 11/07/2006 12:15:26 AM PST by Antioch
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To: torchthemummy
"You look out one day at school and see your principal flying by a window" That's cause Daddy just threw him off the roof......
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:42:50 AM PST
by
nevergore
(“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
To: Pacothecat
People around here are somehow fooled into thinking that education is for the students, instead of for the good of the collective... Oh wait... Getting a failing grade not enough for you?
To: Pacothecat
Not to write IS making a choice. What if the kid was asked to describe why Bush is destroying the world or why Christianity is a silly religion -- should he have been forced to answer that?
A 9 year old (at least most) is not developed enough to think abstractly and so if he has been brought up to respect his principal then to him that would not be right. My mom told me if a teacher asked me to do something that was wrong that I should just tell him or her I would not do it. That's a lesson I teach my kids today. Oh, and I am a trained educator with years of experience.
To: UnsinkableMollyBrown
Thanks, heard all of that before.
We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Good luck.
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:46:51 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: Antioch
Taking a kid to another state!!! Over a test??? Is this a joke?
And what's wrong with this test??
The Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) is a standards-based assessment
The test is used in the state of Washington. Students in third through eighth grade, in Washington's public schools take the WASL reading and mathematics sections. In addition, fifth and eighth graders are required to take the science section, and fourth and seventh graders also take the writing section. Tenth graders are tested in all four sections. For the Class of 2008 and beyond, the WASL is a graduation requirement.
To: Pacothecat
This kid sounds like brat who wouldn't do his work.To me it sounds like a kid perceptive enough to realize he is surrounded by a$$h0les.
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:48:45 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
To: GoLightly
Well actually I said that he should have just been failed in two posts.
To: Pacothecat
Failure is appropriate. Suspension is an overreaction.
To: Antioch
In the letter that went home to mother, the principal writes, "The fact that Tyler chose to simply refuse to work on the WASL after many reasonable requests is none other nothing less than blatant defiance and insubordination." Who wrote this? A third-grader?
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:53:10 AM PST
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Pacothecat
You're making a lot of assumptions based on little information.
Just because a 9 year old boy doesn't answer a test question doesn't mean he's being insubordinate or that he should be suspended for five days.
His test score should simply reflect the unanswered question and whatever consequences that normally entails.
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:54:46 AM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: UnsinkableMollyBrown
I should have added Molly that PARENTS are responsible for their children and parenting begins at home.
If the children are in a school that is not suitable; it is up to the parents to change it.
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posted on
11/07/2006 12:55:59 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: B-Chan; Antioch
I question the mental faculties of a principal whom would accuse a 9-year old of "blatant...insubordination." This is not a military facility dealing with an unpatriotic soldier, this is a school, and this is a child. Far too many of these defectives run our schools, and that is frightening.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:00:13 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: Antioch
The truth is the test scores reflect on the school as much as they do the kid. The principle was acting in his own self interest in trying to make the school look better ahead of the interest of the child.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:02:09 AM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: Antioch
"You look out one day at school and see your principal flying by a window."Sounds like the principal thought he was a superhero and wanted to hear nothing but praise from the kid.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:03:21 AM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: DB
Again I'm with you I've said twice he should just get a bad grade. Calling the Mom, suspension crazy over reaction. But I think a stupid creative writing questing "write a few paragraphs about your principal taking flight" is not political. He didn't even have to make it about the princlple. How about what the birds flying next to this guy would think? It was just supposed to be a story... Geez
To: DB
The kid was acting in the best interests of the principal. He was afraid that he would make fun of him.
Then the principal turns around and penalized him for his concern.
To: Antioch
He should ha completed hat section of the test. It may have been a stupid topic but students have had to write essays on stupid topics for many years - Even when I was in school many many years ago. He is a child and don't get to pick and choose what he will do.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:15:34 AM PST
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade - piss on Islam)
To: Antioch
The highest intelligence is being able to recognize a nonsense question -- and not answer it.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:17:26 AM PST
by
MikeHu
To: MikeHu
See I think just the opposite The highest intelligence is resourceful! How about
He ran outside to see everyone had superpowers"
The birds reaction
The principle was actually being sucked up by aliens
Gravity takes a vacation
I think a smart child could come up with thousands of possibilities.
I think a respectful child would have.
``He cried. He didn't understand why she'd done this to him. Now, Tyler blows up at the drop of a hat. They created a monster. He'll never take that test again, even if I have to take him to another state,''
The mom is the one creating a monster here
To: MikeHu
>>The highest intelligence is being able to recognize a nonsense question -- and not answer it.<<
I probably would have gotten suspended either way - I don't think I could have answered that in a way that would not have caused trouble.
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posted on
11/07/2006 1:29:21 AM PST
by
gondramB
(It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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