Assessment
Today when I went to The Boys and Girls Club, Tadeka was waiting for me. Tadeka’s homework for Monday night was to read a story and answer questions about the story. This reminded me of how with Mrs. F I used to work on some of the same types of assignments. When Tadeka showed me the packet that she had to do for homework, there was an awkward looking signature on the packet, so I asked her if it was her one of her parent’s signatures. Her response was not a clear yes or no She explained to me that her friend Faith taught her how to write her parent’s signature. When I heard this, I immediately thought this is illegal and I have to tell her not to do it. When I told her that she should not forge her parent’s signature, she told me that I should not worry about it. This was a side of Tadeka that I had never seen before and it really surprised me. Over the past few weeks , she had acted as if she really cared about school and the quality of the work we were doing together. Discovering that she was forging her parent’s signature , made me wonder why she would do this and it made me think about what other choices she was making in her life that perhaps were not good ones. After our conversation about the signature and doing the right thing, our time together was different than it had been before this.
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