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8th Grader Suspended for Informing Classmates of Standardized Test ‘Opt-Out’

A New Mexico eighth-grader was suspended from school for letting her classmates know that they could opt out of the state’s new online standardized test.

12-year-old Adelina Silva printed out the forms from her own school’s website and was rewarded with a trip to the principal’s office.

Adelina and her mother, Jacqueline Ellvinger, appeared on “Fox and Friends” this morning to explain what happened and why Adelina was punished.

“I wanted the parents to know that they had the option to let the student either take the test or not,” Adelina said.

“I was sent to the principal’s office for an hour and 20 minutes and then at the end of the day she ended up suspending me.”

The school district released a statement, saying, “Santa Fe Public Schools supports a parent’s right to opt his or her child out of state-mandated standardized testing … no students in the district have been disciplined for supporting or promoting this district policy of a parent’s right to opt their child out of testing.”

Ellvinger said her daughter’s rights were violated even though she didn’t do anything wrong.

“She did absolutely nothing wrong and yet they are making her feel like she did,” Ellvinger said, adding that she’s “furious” and has spoken to the state’s senators.

Despite the negative reaction from the school, Adelina said she would do the same thing again.

IT’S FUCKING PARCC ISNT IT
LET ME TELL YOU THAT GIRL IS HER SCHOOL’S HERO
PARCC TAKES UP TWO MONTHS OF LEARNING
TWO
WHOLE
MONTHS
AND IT HAS NO EFFECT ON YOUR GRADE WHATSOEVER
IT IS COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLSHIT
MOST STATES ARE NOT TAKING BECAUSE THEY REALIZED HOW MUCH BULL IT IS
GOD I HATE THE PUBLIC SYSTEM

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slaughterhousefive:

Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it’s parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1.40 for cars and £7 for buses.

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility.

The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.

The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or France or Italy … is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about £560 per day — for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 7 million pounds … and no one even knows his name.

Fucking brilliance

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bratsquad:

I think this is the most romantic thing to ever happen to me

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