(Actual conversation.)
Student: I passed everything but the writing test.
Me: Are you joking? You're a perfectly capable writer.
Student: I made up my own writing prompt.
Me: Why would you do that?
Student: [smiling] I just wanted to.
Me: You just wanted to take the WASL again?
Student: I have summer school anyway. Might as well have something to work toward.
Oh. My. God.
ReplyDeleteBack in the winter, before my very limited WASL prep period with the kids, I told them that if a very very very low number (which I'll keep private) didn't pass reading and writing, I'd have a pizza party for them. And if a very very very very very low number didn't pass, I'd pay for the pizza. I intentionally picked a target number that I didn't think they had a snowball's chance in hell of reaching.
Much to my delight, I'm researching how I can feed 107 kids pizza for cheapest. (Costco, I'm told.)
Yes, I'm happy for the kids, but I still maintain this don't mean much.