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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So classic.  OP admits she has been getting bombarded with messages on her land line and cell, plus text messages and emails.  She doesn't bother to remind the kid either yesterday or this morning, the kid doesn't remember themselves, ignores any reminders that they've been getting in class, on the way into the building (most schools are posting a sign or note at the front door reminding kids that have SOLs to report to their testing room or even listing the testing rooms).  Neither parent nor student could get him to the test without teachers and admins handholding him when they have hundreds of students, some in SOLs and some not in SOLs and don't always know which ones are and are not supposed to be there.  This is the point of the barrage of reminders that OP clearly ignored and didn't bother to pass on to her child.

And yet, somehow, this is the teacher and admins fault.  If your child can't handle stuff like this without handholding, he's going to be in trouble in high school, college and the work force.  This is how we end up with young employees who blame everyone else when they can't succeed in life without someone walking them through exactly what they're supposed to do.[/quote]

Based on OP's posts, it doesn't sound like the kid forgot, it sounds like he didn't realize he was supposed to go straight to a different testing room, and instead thought he would be directed by a class teacher at the appropriate time.  I was one of the highly skeptical posters, but with OP coming back to answer questions, I'm back in the camp of understanding how this could have happened.[/quote]

I question this.  He's 8th grade.  That means he's in the last year of MS.  He's been doing these every year for the last 6 years including 3 at the current school.  Unless they completely changed how they administer the tests at his school, how could he not know how this works?  He's done this before, so why would he wait until 2nd period to figure out that he's missed the class.  If he went to his home room, by the time they called first period, shouldn't he have figured out that he should already be in the SOL test and actually spoken up to ask a teacher what the deal was?  As pointed out, he's 14, not 6.[/quote]

Do you have a kid in middle school? Ours (APS) does not start the day with “home room.” They start with their first period class 2x a week and their second period class the other two days. TA is in the middle of the day. [/quote]

That’s how it works in our APS middle school too.  PP is probably an elementary school parent who doesn’t know what she’s talking about.[/quote]

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