Student Gets Suspended After Writing YOLO On Test And Tweeting It To School Faculty
A Texas high school student was suspended for writing “YOLO” and a smiley face emoticon on a state-mandated standardized test and then tweet...
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A Texas high school student was suspended for writing “YOLO” and a smiley face emoticon on a state-mandated standardized test and then tweeting a picture of his work to school district officials and the Texas Education Agency.
Kyron and his classmates at Arlington High are being forced to take both the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STARR) test and the old Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, even though only the TAKS will count.
“It wasn’t for a grade,” Kyron told WFAA News 8. “Colleges don’t see it. It didn’t benefit my personal life at all.”
The reason kids are required to take the STARR is so the state can gather information on how to further prepare the examination for the future when it will actually count.
Both Kyron and his mother believe that the four-day-on-campus suspension was too harsh for such a harmless offense.
The Arlington ISD, however, claims that they punished Kyron “in accordance with district disciplinary procedures.”
Kyron suggests that anyone else who is unjustly forced to take the STARR should do the same thing he did but with a hashtag saying “#FreeKyron.”
“I was being a high school kid getting on Twitter,” Kyron Birdine said in his own defense.
But he was also rebelling against a test he believes he shouldn’t have to take because it actually doesn’t count towards his college career.
Kyron and his classmates at Arlington High are being forced to take both the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STARR) test and the old Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, even though only the TAKS will count.
“It wasn’t for a grade,” Kyron told WFAA News 8. “Colleges don’t see it. It didn’t benefit my personal life at all.”
The reason kids are required to take the STARR is so the state can gather information on how to further prepare the examination for the future when it will actually count.
Both Kyron and his mother believe that the four-day-on-campus suspension was too harsh for such a harmless offense.
The Arlington ISD, however, claims that they punished Kyron “in accordance with district disciplinary procedures.”
Kyron suggests that anyone else who is unjustly forced to take the STARR should do the same thing he did but with a hashtag saying “#FreeKyron.”
