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Post by anzuhana on Jul 29, 2010 10:06:35 GMT -5
I hated how Claudia's parents didn't believe her. Did they really think that little of Claudia?
I liked how Janine helped Claudia study for her math exam and how she defended her. I'm glad that Claudia was able to retake the test and pass it, proving that she didn't cheat.
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 26, 2011 12:47:51 GMT -5
Re-reading last night, the following dialog occurs when the Kishis tell Claudia about the principal's phone call. Mrs. Kishi: "The principal didn't sound all that sure about it, either. He said he was just 'informing' us about the situation. I guess it's all part of the procedure." Mr. Kishi: "I think we should go to your school and speak to the principal in person. Straighten this whole thing out." Claudia convinces her parents to "let her handle it" and that was that. First of all, when Mr. Taylor called Mrs. Kishi (I'm guessing he called her, though he could have called either of them), he said should have said something like, "Would it be possible for you and your husband to meet with me tomorrow afternoon? Before that time, both Claudia and Shawna will have been re-tested and we can go from there." Or whichever Kishi parent he spoke to should have at the very least set up the meeting for the following day. It just doesn't match up. I mean here's the subsitute teacher laying down the law, with no ifs, ands, or buts. And yet, the principal without first even talking with Claudia or Shawna, (I'm assuming) backs Mr. Zorzi up on the "F" grade. That is what Mr. Taylor told the Kishis. So maybe Mr. Taylor isn't so great either! O/T of the "Mystery," I fail to understand the reasoning of Mrs. Pike banning the triplets from "going outside." She'd rather they spend all afternoon and I'm assuming weekend also, holed up in the house? I "get" no baseball in the backyard and/or no balls of any kind to be played with in the backyard but to confine them to the house? That just doesn't seem very healthy for three ten year old boys over an indefinite period of time. But then this is Stoneybrook. The same place where parents allow their kids to go to CA unaccompanied but have issue with them wearing sparklies. Or where two teenagers are caught heavily making out, in a compromising position and one of them is "grounded to her room for the weekend." Period the end.
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Post by oldhickory on Apr 27, 2011 15:47:56 GMT -5
^ she probably knew the triplets would go crazy and start telling on each other before long :]
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Post by zoar3 on Apr 27, 2011 17:06:47 GMT -5
That could be but still...
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Post by dragon_lover on May 16, 2011 4:31:49 GMT -5
Who were Shawna's friends that Claudia followed into the bathroom? Cause I can remember Claudia following Shawna in there to get some information about the test.
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Post by wiggir13 on May 16, 2011 18:00:26 GMT -5
I love how in the end of this Claudia gets a huge party at the BSC meeting and then cake a dinner! All for an A- ..... man I made straight A's and never got squat! I should've made my mom read this!
I think the OP-talk is about the dumbest thing ever. I think I am going to make up a language too and start posting in it.....Nah!
I will say that now that I am older, I just don't see this story as plausible. There is no way they would have just accused someone of cheating and taken someone else's word that they didn't. This guy would be sued for that during this day and age!
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Post by zoar3 on May 16, 2011 22:24:24 GMT -5
I (still) think this book should never have played out the way it did, even back then. The Kishis should have gone down to the school immediately and taken a first step toward solving the problem. I still can't believe that no one saw Shawna copy Claudia's test problem for problem. Unless, Shawna had an eagle eye and/or binoculars, how could she even do that?! Let alone manage to do so totally un-noticed. Maybe other kids did see her but kept quiet?
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Post by candykane on May 27, 2011 16:14:35 GMT -5
I think what I still have the hardest time believing is that neither the sub nor nayone in the classroom saw Shawna copy Claudia's test problem for problem. Unless, Shawns had an eagle eye and/or binoculars, how could she even do that?! Let alone manage to do so totally un-noticed. Maybe other kids did see her but kept quiet? Maybe Mr. Zorzi thought the whole thing a joke, who knows? Yeah, how close together were their desks? When Claudia was trying to "incriminate" Shawna she leaned over and started reading the note she was writing, but she had to get pretty close and Mr. Z busted her. Guess he was pretty tuned out during the test-taking to not notice Shawna copying Claudia's entire test.
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Post by zoar3 on May 27, 2011 18:04:20 GMT -5
^ I just edited my above post for a couple spelling errors and ended up slightly altering the rest. Mr. Zorzi must have been either asleep, listening to loud music on a discman, something to have not caught even a glimpse of Shawna cheating. But then, how could not one student let alone Claudia herself not have noticed? The whole thing is crazy.
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Post by booboobrewer on May 27, 2011 18:46:55 GMT -5
Maybe Claudia's eyes are poorer than she thinks? Or maybe Shawna could really make out the answers because of the way Claudia was sitting or how her paper was positioned. Shawna's pretty dumb but I don't think she would be visibly craning her neck during the whole test.
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Post by zoar3 on May 27, 2011 21:12:17 GMT -5
Unless Claudia had huge writing and/or their desks were positioned practically atop each other. In all school classes I remember, desks were in rows of at least 5 with probably a foot of space in between.
It's not posting the entire link in clickable form so Google "Classic School Desk Chair." The very first one either had the blue chair pictured or an even more uncomfortable wooden one. Sometimes the "desk" was more of small square missing a chunk.
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Post by wiggir13 on May 28, 2011 14:10:45 GMT -5
I'm glad this was a math test. Could you imagine cheating off Claudia where you actually had to read her handwriting!
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Post by oldhickory on May 28, 2011 15:28:33 GMT -5
claudia's handwriting always seemed really small and hard to read. does she ever write a bunch of numbers that we can see? i don't remember.
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Post by zoar3 on May 28, 2011 16:16:39 GMT -5
^and decipher it! Although most of her mis-spellings are easy to figure out, however, in a classroom (cheating) situation that probably would take a lot of time.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 1, 2011 13:45:56 GMT -5
The cover illustration of Mr. Zorzi makes him look just like Edward Platt, who played the Chief on Get Smart.
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