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Magnet Applications: Refusal to Test

2/15/2017

 
Me:  You have come to every testing date, and we still have not been able to get your child to go test.

Parent:  I know.  If I could come with them, they would do it.

Me:  Unfortunately, that is not going to happen.  The test is secured material.  

Parent:  What do I do?

Me:  Unfortunately, there is nothing to do, except go home.  Your child won't test, therefore they will not qualify as G/T.  They will be ineligible to any G/T magnets to which you have applied.

Parent:  There is no other testing date?

Me:  This is the last one.

Parent:  I don't know what to do.

​Me:  The only thing you can do ... go on home.

Though I work at a K-8 school (Kindergarten through eighth grade), I'm really a secondary person.  Give me your sulky, your back-talking, your hormonal crazed teenager, and I am in my element.  Random hugs and involved conversations about a goldfish name Fred?  Not so much.

Every year we have four year olds that refuse to test.  They are so distraught by having to leave their parent(s), that they have a meltdown.  I have no patience for this sort of thing.  -- If it were a teenager with a lip ring, implanted horns, and tri-colored hair crying about their boyfriend, no problem (yes, that happened).  But someone not tall enough for adult rides falling to pieces?  Ugh.

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