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stellaluna -> RE: Daughter wrongly accused (3/26/2008 10:56:36 AM)
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ORIGINAL: momma_bee
My opinion - she should have missed the one that she definately 'could have' cheated on.
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This is what I was thinking as well. I'm still not sure I would consider filling in one answer as "cheating." If the teacher always tests the words in a predictable order and doesn't make it clear that filling in one word will get you a zero, then I would consider it working ahead. (in a kid brain)
TMeeks generally has good advice and the advice above me is no exception. Don't put your Christian school on a pedestal. I'm the partial product of one that was poor academically and cruel in disciplinary matters. Also, I encountered a lot of...interesting [8|]...situations in my school career. I was a kid who was determined to learn and more determined to "show them." But I watched so many other kids flounder and fail needlessly. I don't want your kid to be one of those. She may need a different teacher or completely different curriculum.
A note on testing:
I had a similar experience as the one TMeeks related. I was teaching a class at a university--a university--and had a student who was barely scraping by with a 2.0. He had already been on academic probation once. I couldn't understand it at all, because I had gotten to know him pretty well and knew he was very bright. He was actually more bright than most of my A students and in fact, I was planning to ask him to be a class assistant, helping me by tutoring his fellow students. So I told him one day that I didn't want to offend him and maybe it was none of my business, but he was very smart and why were his grades so low?
This young man proceeded to tell me that he was paralyzed by tests. He had problems with test anxiety his entire school career. Even if his homework was perfect, his test grades were so low that his average was barely above passing. He joined a gang and decided to drop out of school, but his mother intervened. He did end up graduating and it took a fair amount of work to find a university that would take him with his grades. By the grace of God, he ended up with me. [8D] I'm not saying that because I'm tooting my own horn, but because having him in my life has blessed me! That boy was hysterical and I laughed and laughed every time he was around, even as I did my best to ignore his gang signs and colors and everything that came with that.
So anyway, I pressed him about this test anxiety stuff and decided to conduct a little experiment. When we took our next test, I separated him from the rest of the class and let him take his test. He made an A+. He said he felt totally relaxed and he remembered everything he studied. He was so proud! It was the first time anyone had ever tried to accommodate him. I went one further and contacted our student disability office. They actually had a counselor who worked with students with test anxiety. The counselor started working with him right away and arranged for him to take his tests alone in the school's testing center. He graduated with a 3.5 GPA, left the gang and went on to get a Master's degree. I still consider him a friend, more than ten years later. [:)]
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