Brickbat: Testing Her Patience

As her 11-year-old son Ethan lay in a coma dying, the Florida Education Department was forcing Andrea Rediske to prove that he wasn't able to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. During his last month in hospice his homebound teacher came everyday, which the family appreciated, and was required to document the progress he was making on his sixth-grade curriculum, which left them upset and baffled.

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[invisible furry hand]

Who cares if he passes sixth grade? He's clearly already got the brains and skills to run the Florida Education Department

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Comments are now.closed.for.the day, folks.

[SugarFree]

Yes. Drunk on kangaroo meat, she still managed to nail it.

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Fermented kangaroo has a real kick.

[Pavlov's Cat]

I thought the school system would be pleased. Isn't the whole point of public education to put the child into a coma?

[pan fried wylie]

He's working ahead of the lesson plan. VERBOTTEN!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...forcing Andrea Rediske to prove that he wasn't able to take the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Or else what?

Anyway, apparently the boy has since died, although I suspect the bureaucrats will require proof of that.

[neoteny]

Or else what?

Gets fined?

Gets charged with child abuse?

Let's not pretend that bureaucrats lack the capability to be creatively cruel.

[Radioactive]

hahahahaha...creative bureaucrat....hahahahaha, you make the bestest jokes

[Pompey]

FFUUUUCCCKKKK!

That is all.

[Bones]

I would have ignored all requests and then at the end of it all after my son died I would have demanded a jury trial for my "crimes."

[Tommy_Grand]

Where is Tony's post asserting that educrats are benevolent and denying that zero-tolerance systems bully families?

[Invisible Finger]

Perhaps the homebound teacher can get funding as a failing school.

[Sam Grove]

No doubt the school district was being compensated for his presence in their rolls.