I had conference with teacher today and had asked how my child did on her test the other day. We had studied for it, so I was wondering how she did. I had called the morning of test and left a message to remind them to give her accomodations of reading the test to her and scribing for her. So it turns out that the learning support person wasn’t there and a substitute had given the test to my child, but she thought it was a worksheet and helped her with it, or so they think because my child got it all correct.Teachers comment was if she got that much correct all future tests should be read to her. So they are trying to get a hold of the substitute to find out how much she helped so they can score the test. I am irritated.
Re: what give my child appropriate accomodations
Well, maybe your right and they will start having expectations for her. I had previously talked to the teacher , because she had twice mentioned she had no expectations for my child. She had left me a message the night before the test about not knowing what to expect from my child regarding the test and that’s why I left her a message about giving her accomodations. Maybe I can get my child’s teacher from last year to talk to this years teacher and maybe things will improve in these last three months of school.
Pick your battles and watch your assumptions… this one *may* be a false irritation. (Besides, irritation isn’t good for mind, soul, or body.) Just playing devil’s advocate here:
Unless she usually gets 100% on these things, getting a perfect score *would* make me — for any student — want to simply ascertain that perhaps I *could* expect this kind of performance from this student more often. If conditions were unusual — substitute giving test — I would definitely be checking up. It wouldn’t be because I thought the kiddo had taken unfair advantage, or couldn’t possibly do that well. It would be because if she could do that well, I would sincerely want to set the stage so that she could continue to do that well.
I have often observed too many school personnel make a *habit* of giving a lot of extra “help” that creates false expectations and, if it’s a reasonably bright kiddo, teaches the hidden curriculum lesson that they’re just not quite capable and need to cheat to play the game of school.
So — don’t be too quick to begrudge holding that sub accountable for standard administration of the test. Hopefully she’ll just have aced the silly thing and they’ll start setting things up so she can make a habit of it… which is what at least they’re *saying* is why they’re doing it.