"It’s like they don’t care about the kid and how the kid has done and how the kid feels."
To Araniel Gonzalez Garcia and his family, the top score the high school junior earned on his U.S. History end-of-course exam was a tribute to hard work and a cause for celebration.
To the Osceola County school district, it was a “statistical anomaly.”
They ordered the St. Cloud High School student from Kissimmee to take it again last month. And, in what Araniel said was a stress-filled situation, he failed.
Now the disheartened student, who otherwise has an A in his history class, and his family are speaking publicly against a review procedure that hangs up a tiny percentage of students on state-required tests each year.
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