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Seattle Teacher suspended for refusing to give the state test


"A Seattle middle school science teacher has been suspended for two weeks without pay for refusing to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning in his classroom. Union officials and education leaders say Carl Chew of Nathan Eckstein Middle School might be the first teacher in Washington state to be suspended for refusing to give his students the high-stakes test." Read on




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2 Comments

Ross Comment by Ross on May 8, 2008 at 11:09am
ROCK ON CARL!!! Man... what if 100 teachers did this in his district? Would they suspend them all? And then what if 10,000 teachers did this is the state of Washington? Revolution ... it's about each person being a change agent.
Mechelle De Craene Comment by Mechelle De Craene on May 8, 2008 at 11:27pm
Wouldn’t that be something! : D

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