No accountability

[tommymac]

So this pig is upset over the award her daughter got, yet wasnt aware of the homework problem. She obviously takes a very active role in what her kids doing at school.

of course she will sue for mental anguish or soem shit like that.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/8-old-gets-catastrophe-award-most-homework-excuses-113936385--abc-news-topstories.html

[Trip]

nice excuse, see where the kid gets it from..

[CasterTroy]

Stolen from Lee

[Gas Man]

Society is full of dumb fucks! Parents especially!

[EpyonXero]

Stolen from Lee

What does that have to do with the story?

[Papa_Complex]

About the only tool left in a teacher's arsenal, for punishment, is shaming. So now are they going to take that away too?

[jtemple]

They're practicing this around here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_promotion

Social promotion is the practice of promoting a student (usually a general education student, rather than a special education student) to the next grade only at the end of the current school year, regardless of when or whether they learned the necessary material, in order to keep them with their peers by age, that being the intended social grouping. It is sometimes referred to as promotion based on seat time, or the amount of time the child spent sitting in school.

My wife teaches 7th grade science. Basically, the school can recommend that a student repeat a grade. The ultimate decision comes from the parents. In her area (low income minority neighborhood), almost all parents choose against repeating a grade. What she's stuck with is a bunch of mouthy kids that can barely read.

[shmike]

What does that have to do with the story?

Read the names.

Christina Valdez said her daughter, Cassandra Garcia...

We're lucky she's not already knocked up.