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Article: A field test.(Brief article)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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It was after school and all buses and most teachers had left for home. Joe Soldan, principal of Drew Middle School in Stafford, Va., had just finished the first demanding day of state testing. When the phone rang, Soldan figured it was a parent with a complaint about the test.
Instead, Soldan was asked for his advice about a different beast: Could he tell the difference between a male and a female field mouse? The parent had just caught and killed one in her house. Upset by the prospect of an infestation, she was willing to dissect the creature to ...