Do you think the school would do this?

[Alpo]

This is from a story. It is fiction. It is not real.

 

So the 9th grader takes the SAT. Gets called into the office a couple of weeks later. Turns out he got the highest grade in the state.

 

Not the highest grade of all the other 9th graders that took the test. The HIGHEST GRADE in the state.

 

The principal is all excited. Going to be in the paper. "Our school taught somebody who got the highest grade in the state!! Boy howdy, ain't we a good school!!!" With the student's name and his photograph.

 

Parents said no. "We don't want any publicity."

 

You think the school would do what the parents wanted, which would prevent the school from getting good publicity? Or would they just go ahead and put the story in the paper anyhow?

 

As I said - this is a story. It is fiction. And in the story they did what the parent wanted.

 

But I find that slightly unbelievable.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Get publicity or get sued....tough choice. 

[Eyesa Horg]

Odds are the parent would have no proof they told the school "no publicity", so suit would just be a waste of time and funds. If they can feed students gender drugs and not inform parents, I'm pretty sure they could publicise a student getting the highest grade. Then find out he/she cheated!!

[Stump Water]

Schools aren't allowed to publish SAT scores.  Bad fiction.

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

was an elementary teacher for 35 years

 

we wouldn't do it--anything dealing with minors must have parental permission.  We didn't publish anything without written documentation

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

SATs weren’t administered until the junior year when I was in high school. Done during the summer break between sophomore and junior years.

 

And Schoolmarm says that they’d never do that in our school system without parental consent.

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

I can tell you exactly how something very similar happened.

 

My High School in Battle Creek Michigan,

Some time after we had taken the SAT's;  we (student body) were called to an assembly.

 

We were informed that a student in our school had achieved the highest score recorded in the state of Michigan; this student (and the school) were going to be recognized, receive a plaque and a write up in the newspaper.

 

We all looked around and took stock of the usual suspects; the various "brains" in their preppy attire with perfect attendance and Valedictorian aspirations.

 

And when they announced the students name - I can absolutely assure you, that student had zero advance notice or opportunity to decline the publicity.

 

I happen to know that student really well and if he had had advance notice; he certainly would not have come to school that day in faded jeans, old flannel shirt and tan lug sole work boots.

 

Mind you, I looked good in the newspaper photo - but I certainly was not prepared nor notified ahead of time.

 

And in case anyone is curious - I was not Valedictorian nor Deans list/ Honor Roll.

Turns out you can be both a lousy student and a very good test taker.

Edited June 14 by Creeker, SASS #43022

[Blackwater 53393]

Like Creeker said, you don’t have to be a top student to score well on standardized tests. You just have to know the material and be comfortable taking those tests!

 

I graduated 130th out of a class of 218. I scored a perfect score on the math portion of the ACT and in the 98th percentile in the Language Arts portion!  I mostly hated school and skipped all or part of 178 days my senior year!

 

EDIT: I got caught twice while ducking classes my senior year! The penalty was a three day suspension!  GO FIGURE!!🙄

 

 

Edited June 14 by Blackwater 53393

[Eyesa Horg]

I left a good High school in my junior year to go to a trade school for electronics. Had to drop back to a Sophomore and I chose the wrong school! Mostly ghetto thieves! Anyhow, it turned out that even their Senior classes, I had taken in the 5th grade.

I ended up taking a job at a TV shop the beginning of my now new Junior year as sitting in as Tudor just wasn't cutting it. I even had to take drivers ed and had already had my license for over a year and a half. Got my State service license by that summer.

Had my own shop for a couple years repairing mostly audio and band equipment with some TVs.

Then went to the phone company, where after 10 years became an " outside plant manager with anywhere from a dozen technicians to 60!

Long story, but got sick of every year when the company education forms came out, I was the only one of the bunch that the top line said "high school,non-grad", it drove me nuts! So headed down to get a GED! After working a stressful 10-12 hour day,that wasn't going to cut it either!

They made me take a bunch of quick (45 minutes tests) which I completed in my under 10 minutes each. The administrator made remarks of how I was just wasting their time and couldn't possibly pass and then take the GED test. They begrudgingly called me in the office and gave me a date for the test!

It had a time frame of four hours and I handed it back in in under an hour. More snide remarks! About a month later I received a packet in the mail from the Feds and President Clinton, turns out I graduated in the top 4% of the country after being out of school for 23 years! Yay! However in the following 15 years as a Manager, I never successfully got that damn education form changed😡! Now I'm old and don't particularly care!

[Sixgun Symphony #62632]

After going to the trouble of getting a GED, I would call HR about fixing that education form. You may have to fax in a copy of that GED certificate as you earned it 

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Sixgun Symphony #62632 said:

After going to the trouble of getting a GED, I would call HR about fixing that education form. You may have to fax in a copy of that GED certificate as you earned it 

It's pretty amazing! This was back in the '90s and I was guy that had to work with HR. In my remaining roughly 15 years still never successfully got it fixed. My superior had no luck either. Nothing went as it should after SBC bought us .   They ruined what was a great Telephone Co.

I've been retired for 20 years this month! Damn, how time has flown.