The principal finally resigned & it was not a surprise. The school was very disorganized. Teachers teaching the same grade did not communicate with each other. They set their own homework & test questions. There was not a uniform standard to assesss students at the same grade level. This school loved surprise tests. The principal loved them. The teachers loved them. Surprise tests don't give students the time to prepare for them and they won't accurately measure how much a student knows about the subject matter. They are just convenient to the teachers. Whenever you are falling behind or you are not prepared for the class, you can just give a surprise test to the kids. There was one time a teacher spent 2 months on the subject of Multiplication. When she finally realized that she was running behind, she started to jam the material on the students to try to finish the curriculum. It was this same teacher who gave out 3 surprise tests in just one week (on the same subject) during the final weeks of the school year. The school has a textbook to use in the class for each subject. Students were allowed to take the book home to study whenever there was a test the next day. At one time, my daughter tried to take the math book home to study. The teacher disallowed it and the reason was: "There is no test tommorrow." One has to wonder whether this school is doing education or just trying to play a game that people don't understand.
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