[Magdalen] Educational update re Everett.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

hmmm maybe it's time for some 'math time with dad' or another friend or 
fellow student who can  help Ev with some of the difficult parts.

Lynn, never an algebra wiz... but finally 'got' some of it as an adult, many 
years later

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From: "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 3:32 PM
To: "Pub Comma The" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Educational update re Everett.

> Twice now Everett's taken the California high school exit exam, and twice 
> now he's miserably failed the math part.  (He sailed through the 
> English-language Arts part the first time he took it.)  His teacher tells 
> me (privately; Everett doesn't know) that in the Fall he'll give it to him 
> one more time, and if failed again he'll do what's apparently only 
> reserved for special ed kids, and that's do an "intervention" that 
> involves applying for Everett's requirement to pass be waived.  He assures 
> me that all such requests are granted.
>
> Teacher tells me what I already knew, that it's a crock of a system, for 
> all kids involved.  But especially for the special ed kids.  He's got a 
> senior he recently "intervened" for, and all because after several tries 
> the poor kid still got exactly one correct answer away from passing.  And 
> what he tells me just fries his sensibilities, is that he can legally get 
> a kid waived from passing altogether, but he can't give a kid a calculator 
> so he can pass.  Even in Everett's case, he's pretty sure all that's 
> needed is a calculator.