School Demands Kid With Cancer Take Final, Teacher Does Him a Solid

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Eric Lund
Oct 12, 2019 3:00 PM EDT

School and colleges can have some pretty draconian rules when it comes to mandatory attendance for testing. This can lead to some tense situations, and pretty interesting stories like this guy who had to show up looking scary sick to a test. In this case it was the teacher themselves who battled with the system.

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    Text - r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/ConfusedContortion 21 hours ago Force this kid to take the final Fine, he'll take it. ос s So this happened years ago when I was in highschool, but I smile every time I think of it. My highschool had a policy that anyone who has missed less than a certain
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    Text - number of school days could pick one class they had an A in to skip the final. You could get a couple extra days for college visits, but otherwise it was very straight forward. Awesome policy, and we all loved it. One year, we had this kid who was in eighth grade and had been diagnosed with cancer. He spent allot of his year sick, getting treatment, going to the hospital, running to the bathroom to throw up, etc.
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    Text - Despite all this he finished the year with an A in his Spanish class. It was his only highschool class, so it was the only final he would have been able to skip. Administration was not going to let him skip the final because he had missed too much school. He and his parents asked them to make an exception, given the situation, but administration wouldn't budge. His teacher stood up for him, but was told this kid had to take the final no matter what. He had missed too many
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    Text - days and there would be no exception. The teacher said ok, but told her class not to study for, worry about, or exempt her final Then, the first day all her students showed up for the final she told them to take out a piece of paper and number it 1-3 leaving one line in between each number. She
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    Text - then asked three questions along the lines of, "What is your name?" "How do you say yes in Spanish?", and "How do you say hello in Spanish?" Then she collected the final. Everyone got an 100 that year, and she became a legend. The kid has been cancer free for over five years now.
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