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The WASL was child's play. My graduating class was the "pilot" year and regardless of being the first class to take it, I found it to be an utter joke.

It's a bullshit exam that absolutely everyone should be able to pass. The knowledge required and the problems contained in the test are elementary level at best. Those who fail lack basic reading, writing, and mathematic skills and thus deserve to not be allowed to graduate.

We don't need the illiterate graduating from our schools and mucking up the workplace. If I'd have failed the WASL, I'd have pleaded for my school's administration to hold me back. If I were that stupid, hell, I should have been sent back to the 2nd grade.

Think of the WASL as a "big flashing beakon" that will alert you to whether or not there's a good chance that you will be failing in life. There are only a small handful of these in your highschool career so keep your eyes peeled. They are as follows:

a) You have to negotiate with your counselour and/or administrator in order to achieve the necessary credits to graduate because you've failed too many Gen-ED classes.
b) You lose credit for a class due to tardies and/or absences (unless you have medical reasons or a vacation which, likewise, can be contested and you will receive these credits back, so my initial observation still stands).
c) You fail an elective course.
d) You score lower than an 1100 on the SAT (although I'm unsure about the **NEW** SAT since it's worth more points and thus the grading will be different).
e) You fail the Washington Assessment of Student Learning exam.


Passing the WASL is neither an achievement nor a milestone. It's no big deal unless you are unable to pass it, inwhich case you're a "big fat loser" and deserve to be stoned (with rocks not weed).