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Just for fun, I asked DD11 this question. Her response: "They probably would have been disappointed because I bet the newsletter full of lies was more interesting than the accurate one."

Ha! No kidding. It DID sound interesting, the way they described it!

It was a stupid question. The issue is, is DD simply resisting stupid questions because she recognizes and objects to their stupidity, or is she actually unable to correctly answer a stupid question because her brain can't make the "I guess the right answer is supposed to be X even though..." leap. (And if she knows the answer but feels emotionally really bothered by selecting it, is that because she is ASD-rigid, or because she is a perfectionist, or...)

Funny - we had a dispute over language like this with DD8's teacher. She sent email to parents on a Wednesday about a book report assignment, and said something like "it would be helpful if" kids could bring in their selected book by Friday. Then she gave a Late to everyone who didn't have a book yet on Friday. We couldn't even get a book shipped by Amazon Prime fast enough to have it at school on Friday! And guess what, we don't have lots of Newbery award books laying around that DD hasn't read yet, and the assignment said that it had to be a book they hadn't read before. And most Newbery winners are grossly inappropriate for third graders, in my estimation.