Kid Suspended for Refusing to Answer Exam Question

Disgusting. Utterly repugnant. As though we need another reason to believe the school system is failing in it's duties to society...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, yeah, weird kid. Looks like his parents try a little too hard to bring up a li'l model citizen, y'know? Kid was deadly afraid of authority figures, and now he's got a taste of how unfair and downright self-serving they can be. Maybe it'll help him in his quest to learn how to think for himself. His parents are tools to think he's scarred from that. Looks to me like he'll get over it after a solid week of videogames, and he'll come out of this with a worldview slightly more realistic than the one his parents have probably shoved down his throat.

But yeah, she was definately out of line, and that kid will have a much harder time trusting educators for the next several years. He'll get over it and grow up to reform the school system, though, so no harm done, right? ^_^

This shit's right outta Daria, kids. :P

There's nowhere I can't reach.

OK, that was just frakkin' weird. Off topic much? Someone ban that foo'.

What the kid coulda/shoulda done is really of little value here, since the point of the thread (IMO) is the injustice in getting suspended for not answering a question. It's an exam, folks. I've SKIPPED exams before, and you know what happened? I LOST POINTS. You don't suspend a kid for making you look bad, and that's the real point here, isn't it?

But since we're talking about the kid and he'll probably never see this thread... All through school, I never could bring myself to bullshit through an exam, which is why in high school I never broke 80% on anything english/lit-related. My parents brought me up to be honest to a fault (yeah, that's possible), so I found it hard to write things I knew to be bullshit. So maybe this kid's got the same deal. I mean, his parents look to be as smothering and melodramatic as mine were, so maybe that's it.

Also, once your mind gets on track, it can be pretty hard to shift gears and rethink the whole thing. The kid had an awesome story in mind, and couldn't use it, but it was so good he couldn't think of anything else in time. Sounds plausible, right? It seems pretty clear that this bitch (I said it for you, Tsunade :P) is overly concerned with her image as percieved by herself and others, so IMO it was probably a good judgement call on the kid's part to not write that story.

When I was nine, I had to write a story about a school field trip to the zoo. The animals escaped, and I came to the rescue with big guns and futuristic ammunition, Rambo/Schwarzenegger-style. My english teacher had a brief cameo, when I mistook her for a tiger (hey, it was foggy) and pumped her full of lead... and whatever else was in those bullets. She called it "unrealistic". I called it "fiction". I got a B.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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And I believe the word Tsunade wanted to use was "cunt".

I believe you're absolutely right! How very unperceptive of me!

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