Re: Tales from the Crypt

[Art Burke <aburke@VANSD.ORG>]

Suppose a court were to rule that kids of high school age could choose to take the test in the face of a parent's disapproval?  Art

>>> wcala@SERVTECH.COM 09/22 5:36 PM >>>
Juanita,

Take the scores to the guidance office.  Ask to see the guidance folder.  If the results are in the folder, ask that they be torn up in front of you.  If they refuse, see the superintendent.  If that doesn't work go to the board.  Next step is your friendly attorney.

BC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Juanita Doyon 
  To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU 
  Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:45 AM
  Subject: WASL: Tales from the Crypt


  Last WASL season (previously known as "Spring") a friend of mine did a lot of communicating with our local HS, to make sure she used the proper procedures to opt her 10th grade son out of the testing. 

  She was told to write a note to the school and he would be provided alternative activities during testing.  My friend sent a note to the school and also gave a copy of the note to her son in case he needed it. 

  My friend then had to take an unexpected trip out of town, to attend her grandmother's funeral. 

  In her absence, the school convinced her son that he should take the WASL. 

  My friend was furious, upon her return.  I went with her the first morning she was back and visited the principal of the high school.  We voiced outrage that the school would override a written parent direction. 

  My friend's son was upset with his mother, for making a scene.  He would have preferred to go on with the testing, which, he did, as his mother told him at that point he had the option.  The school had made the testing look like the better alternative to the alternative activity, to a 15-year-old. 

  My friend called the assistant superintendent at our district office, that same week, and informed him that she wanted her son's WASL answer sheet destroyed or marked so that it would not be graded.  She may have told the principal this also, I'm not sure. 

  Guess what arrived in my friend's mail today....  Her son met the standard in two sections and failed to meet the standard in two sections.  (he admits he didn't try)  She did not want to receive scores.  She did not want her son to take the test.  She was denied her legal right as a parent. 

  She's thinking about what she will do next.  Any suggestions? 

  Juanita Doyon 
  Mothers Against WASL-- The Test Stops Here! 

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