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(Continued from Page 1) retention in a regular second grade as a “slap in the face” that was hindering instead of helping the boy.
“Are you willing to have him tested (as part of the Placement Committee’s investigation)?” asked Dr. Bloomer.
“No sir,” Smoot answered. “He was promoted to third grade. That’s where he belongs.” Smoot said he’d promised his children a reward if they passed last year. Two did and were given a pony; one failed and got nothing.
“What am I to do?” asked Smoot. “Take half the pony back since school records showed William had failed after all?”
“A discrepancy exists,” stated Bloomer between the school records that show William promoted to regular second grade and the missing report card alledged by Smoot to show his son promoted to third grade. To determine where the boy belongs, “additional testing should be done, but we need your approval,” Bloomer told Smoot.
“You don’t have my approval,” Smoot countered. He claimed that he was unaware of William’s previous assignments, as shown on school records, to any junior primary grades as part of the reading readiness program.
Mollie Hobson interrupted to tell the Board that the teacher who began the junior > primary program for children initially unprepared to handle regular classroom
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