Re: WASL makes the list

["Jean M. Ward" <jmward@QWEST.NET>]

>
> In a message dated 1/27/01 10:43:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> BDeBuhr@EXCITE.COM writes:
>
> << "WASL is
>  a high stakes test" >>

Juanita Doyon wrote:
>
> Terry asked to meet with Jean Ward and I and some other parents of
> our choosing for lunch sometime, when we talked to her at the last A+
> meeting-- damage control!  She made sounds like she isn't as stupid and hard
> nosed as she appears to be, but we didn't buy it.  Things is heatin' up and
> just maybe we ain't the frogs in the pot anymore?

Remember when I told Terry (our Superintendent of Public Instruction for
the people who don't know her) that I wasn't interested in meeting if
she was just going to meet to try and convince me of how great the WASL
was because my mind was not going to be changed?

Let's see.  Terry said she would have her office get ahold of us.  I
gave her my phone numbers but FUNNY....I haven't heard a word.  Empty
words is all she is.  Besides, she isn't interested in listening to us.
She said that to appease us and because they were talking at that A+
meeting about needing MORE communication between admin. and parents
about the WASL to make us (lowly) parents understand it.

She's been tooooo busy trying to get her new proposed $13 million WAVES
system (Washington Vitrual Education Space) so that all the schools can
access test scores (WASL) & others to evaluate their incoming
students'ability.  An invasion of privacy and fiscally irresponsible.

We're the WILD, WILD WEST!!!!!!

Jean Ward
Bonney Lake, WA

WE WON'T WASL!

Boycotting the 7th grade WASL this year
Boycotting the 9th grade WASL next year

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