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SAT scores and highschool is overated. My niece was told she had learning disabilities, she wouldn't amount to anything by teachers and she just failed badly in Highschool. She got her GED. A few years later i talked her into going to community college to get a degree or learn a vocation. Now she is getting her bachelors and has a 3.5 gpa in college. College education is different. I know alot of kids who did great in highschool but failed college and vice versa.
I guess you skipped the article from your favorite online source, did you miss the bone ignorant student story?
ACT/SAT scores can make or break you getting into a good school or a bad school. It is also a measurement against your peers. So what that means is Hawaii students don't stack up against their peers - it is what it is.
You can graduate them but that doesn't mean they're very bright.
By the way it isn't "highschool" it's High School. Two words.
"Overate"is actually overrated.
You aren't exactly a poster child for a DOE success story.
I guess you skipped the article from your favorite online source, did you miss the bone ignorant student story?
ACT/SAT scores can make or break you getting into a good school or a bad school. It is also a measurement against your peers. So what that means is Hawaii students don't stack up against their peers - it is what it is.
You can graduate them but that doesn't mean they're very bright.
By the way it isn't "highschool" it's High School. Two words.
"Overate"is actually overrated.
You aren't exactly a poster child for a DOE success story.
They keep passing my husband's youngest, and we can't figure out how they justify it.
He is smart and tests well, but is always flunking due to not doing his homework. End of the year comes and they pass him anyway.
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They keep passing my husband's youngest, and we can't figure out how they justify it.
He is smart and tests well, but is always flunking due to not doing his homework. End of the year comes and they pass him anyway.
I guess it depends on how they grade? Homework is really just exercise to learn the material. I know some teachers where homework is like only 20% of the grade. I know teachers where homework is 50% of the grrade. I know tests are used to show mastery of knowledge. Don't get me wrong I'm not justifying laziness but it might be that your stepson has shown he knows the material? But yeah he should be doing homework. The process of doing homework teaches young people a good life skill.
He gets Ds and Fs, and then they give a bunch of make-up assignments the last week of school year.
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He gets Ds and Fs, and then they give a bunch of make-up assignments the last week of school year.
Ok mikala43 here is what you do k. You have any filipina or Pacific islander auntie friends,Yeah? Ask dem to teach you da stink eye. It's sounds crazy but it works. When I was one small kid I was more afraid of my older aunties stink eye and silent treatments after then any dirty lick'ns I received. Swear they was so good at it that even after most of the husbands would grumble and leave the room or goto the man caves or outsude.
I'm sorry of course this is my issue alone. It's just every time I hear bashing of anything local or Native Hawaiian my neck muscles tighten because often I envision a outsider trying to give me there religion or trying to say there ways from where they come from are better then enveryone else's because we need to enlighten the unenlighten. I know I need to work in this.
The deal here is that the student probably has an IEP, which allows them to stay in school through age 21. I don't see how they can lose their suit, as federal law conveys this right to the family.
These kids get extra time for a "transition period", to train them for some sort of work after school.
Sometimes it's just an opportunity for the parents to get extra years of baby sitting for their special needs child.
Of course, these students are usually not held to the same standard as the mainstream kids, when it come to the three "R"s.
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