Does academic suspension in college ruin my future?
Published Sunday, March 08, 2009 12:05 AM Teenager wants suspension erased By JANET PHELPS janet.phelps@theeagle.com A Navasota High School student who refused to take a state-mandated test said last week that he hoped school officials would take the suspension he received as punishment off his record. In place of the essay portion of the 10th-grade English section of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills on Tuesday, 16-year-old Kyle Williams wrote a letter of protest to a state agency. Williams said last week that he hoped his protest would improve the quality of English education at Navasota High, but school and state officials said his actions only caused harm to himself and the school. “Yes, it looks bad for the school, but what’s worse is it’s not giving [Williams] the opportunity to succeed,” Navasota schools Superintendent Jennings Teel said. State and federal laws require standardized testing at certain grade
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