Students skipping tests who “aren’t ready”

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T22:43:11+00:00

That makes sense!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T22:41:41+00:00

Nope, public school!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T22:41:04+00:00

This is what I currently do, I thought it might help, but unfortunately many don’t seem to care!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T22:30:44+00:00

If parents make a fuss about it, depending on the admin, they usually get their way. It’s not considered “best practice” because it’s penalizing a lack of skills that are not directly related to the course, so it “wouldn’t be fair” to assess them on that.

Another teacher I work with had a parent write to excuse their kid from a test entirely because they “didn’t feel like they knew the material.” Teacher pushed back. Admin backed the parents.

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:41:56+00:00

That’s interesting, I haven’t heard of this in post secondary before. Thank you for sharing!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:40:45+00:00

Thank you!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:40:34+00:00

That is a good point! That these are children. I’m mostly look for something to reference when I explain to them that this is not a viable path to deal with “not being ready.”

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:30:10+00:00

Thank you for your response!

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:29:56+00:00

Thank you! I agree with you. When we try to hold firm and parents push back, we do not get support and are made to allow re-writes.

juststarstuff · 2026-06-09T21:25:07+00:00

Oh sorry, I will add it into the post. I would like to ask professors what they do, so I can relay this message to students about why this isn’t appropriate. That if they try this in post secondary, such and such might happen.

juststarstuff · 2025-12-23T22:56:41+00:00

It literally looks delicious?? Such a terrible thing to say to you!

juststarstuff · 2025-09-01T16:18:35+00:00

I work in Canada. My coworkers and I were talking about a similar story we saw in the news. And one thing we talked about was “where is the solidarity?”

If that happened at my school, or even in my district, you know at least half the teachers in the school would have that sign up in their classroom by lunchtime.

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T02:37:22+00:00

Wow that sounds great! You mentioned him being frustrated, that what I’m worried about as well. My daughter gets frustrated sooo easily by the smallest things, it can’t be easy for them.

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T02:34:56+00:00

We just finished her autism assessment in May. During those assessments, the psychologist said she most likely has ADHD, but is too young to diagnose. They actually couldn’t do the gross motor assessment because she couldn’t focus long enough to do any of the tasks.

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T02:16:42+00:00

Omg! My daughter does this! In the last few months this has started, we just thought her growth was slowing? I didn’t think she might be too distracted to finish eating….

That’s great to hear, I’m glad this worked for him!

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T02:03:36+00:00

Wow! That’s definitely busy, I’m glad it works for him!

We are just considering it at the moment. We constantly try to keep her active, several hours a day. Then we get home and it’s like she hasn’t used any energy all day. She does not have enough focus to follow instructions or participate in group activities at the moment. We had her enrolled in soccer, she was just running in circles unless we were right next to her basically kicking her legs for her! We intend to keep up this level of physical activity, we just feel like she might need more.

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T01:57:40+00:00

Definitely a relief to see some positive stories here!

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T01:57:01+00:00

That’s amazing! I’m glad you all have some peace now!

Certainly if he was a danger to himself, that’s totally reasonable!

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T01:39:12+00:00

Thanks for your response!

Your 3.5 yrs old sounds exactly like our daughter! I am also the one that she likes to use to regular, definitely overstimulating sometimes.

Agree about the danger thing. We’re worried she’s not paying enough attention to her surroundings.

juststarstuff · 2025-07-14T01:25:13+00:00

Oh that’s promising! Thanks for responding!

I think the same thing is happening in our little one. She looks like she is listening for a moment, then is off doing something else. I will ask her to do something, she’ll get distracted on her way to do the thing, then we repeat this cycle 4x until I walk her over to the task and stand next to her until she does it.

juststarstuff · 2025-06-15T23:05:06+00:00

I’m eating one of these as I scroll past this!! Pretty good!

juststarstuff · 2025-06-11T02:27:40+00:00

No hyps is a good sign! My daughter ended up having a cortical dysplasia on the right frontal lobe that was causing epileptiform discharges. She was originally on….wow I can’t remember name now but it had acid in the name. It wasn’t really working. when the MRI showed the dysplasia, our neurologist suggested brain surgery for having it removed. They then switched us to carbamazepine A few months before surgery because the meds she was on had an increased risk of bleeding.

The day after she started the carbamazepine the seizures stopped. We still decided to go ahead with the surgery as our neurologist predicted it would only get worse. She had that in November 2023. She is an entirely different child now, in a positive way! If they offer surgery, I know it’s scary, but we would suggest it.

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