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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm sorry--it's definitely frustrating when reality doesn't match expectations.

This is a really good lesson though.  Middle school expects kids to take more responsibility for themselves than elementary school does, and next year in high school it will be 10x more on your son to figure things out.  He doesn't have to have all the answers, but at 14 years old he should have the skill set to ask questions when he's confused or doesn't understand what to do.  This could have all been solved if he had just asked his Spanish teacher where he should be for the SOL instead of waiting for someone to notice he was missing, track him down, take him to the testing room, etc.

You say it's not fair that they expected him to know where to go, but...somehow all the other kids knew.  What's different there?  If half the kids were missing, I'd say you have a case, but if he was one of just a few who got confused, I'd really work on his self advocacy or 9th grade is going to be a big struggle.[/quote]

I don't think he has any way of knowing who, of the four or five kids in his two-day-a-week hybrid Spanish class, is in 7th or 8th grade. It's his first year at the school and he has only seen these kids on screen and now in person a dozen times, distanced, with masks and never in any social setting. And if there were four kids physically there instead of six, why would he think anything was amiss--attendance is very spotty these days. He probably thought--since no one sent him to a SOL room and his Spanish teacher didn't say anything, and since it was the reading SOL--that it would be during 2nd period which was English. That's when the problem was figured out.

So glad everyone thinks the new kid who started middle school in its third year (where everyone assumes 8th graders know what to do, so no one explains anything) and doesn't really know any students or any teachers because they have mostly been in a virtual environment should have this SOL testing thing down, though, and since he didn't he's going to be a failure at high school. [/quote]

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