Well to some degree his mother is dramatizing this. In other articles she saysTyler, "hasn't been the same since. He liked the principal before this,'' she says. ``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 mother is displaying some real barf-o-rama victimization there. Children should be taught to respect adults, but a five day suspension, especially when the principal is mistaken abut the consequences, is just wrong. Postscript: The district superintendant reinstated Tyler.
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.
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.
The mother is displaying some real barf-o-rama victimization there.
From a personal perspective: my eldest daughter was a good grade "think outside the box"/apply world knowledge type of student until her fourth grade teacher killed her will to learn. If you want the grim details, FReepmail me. I will just say this woman had NO BUSINESS being around children that age and I hate her guts for doing what she did to my Taylor (who, by the way, at the age of four was playing Simon Says 'Touch your scapula' or 'touch your zygomatic' in pre-school to the confusion of other four year olds and the amazement of adults - she knew these terms from sitting in my sister's lap while my sister studied to be a PA)
From then on, my daughter hasn't put forth any effort in her school work, does enough just to get by and seems to have taken stupid pills.
All it takes is ONE PERSON to kill their spirit.