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This year, DD again misunderstood instructions on a test. She was told she could bring a certain type of calculator into a test. She couldn't find her calculator on the morning of the test, so brought one that had more functions than were allowed. She, in her SN logic, thought that if she didn't use the functions, there wouldn't be a problem. After the test, she showed the calculator to her teacher and told her she hadn't used any of the functions that were not allowed. She made mistakes on the test that could easily have been corrected had she used the calculator.

DD's school has a zero tolerance policy regarding cheating. Her teacher lowered DD's grade, which I felt was appropriate because DD had not followed directions. However, because DD had a "prior" she was reported to the principal, who said DD had cheated (even though she had made no attempt to hide the calculator, and clearly had not used all its functions). Because it was DD's second offense, the principal said DD will have to go before a peer review panel who will decide whether or not DD will be suspended from school for a week, which is the school's standard punishment for cheating.

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[b]Your DD didn’t misunderstand the directions. [/b]

She understood them just fine.  She understood that she didn’t have the right calculator so she came up with a crafty solution.  Her line of thinking was pretty much consistent with a typical middle school student who forgot the right calculator and was hoping to get away with using a different one.

I give her credit for the creative idea but I think in general students at that age could easily think it was reasonable to do what she did.  In fact, I think a peer review would be much easier on her than an adult review.

What your DD did misunderstand is that she got away with her crafty solution and she just needed to be thankful and not flaunt.  Oh well, lesson learned for her.

[quote=Anonymous] Her diagnosis is of a "mild" disability, and she has no diagnosis for anxiety because we have not had her evaluated for that. [b]Her anxiety only appears under stressful situations[/b], like tests, mostly.

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Then she is in good company because at least 95% of the general population gets anxious in stressful situations.  Really OP, don’t ever use that as an example out loud if you want someone to take the situation seriously.
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21:59- I agree with your entire post.[/quote]

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