Re: The Worst Thing About NCLB

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This year we have two solid hours of *just* reading! We don't have
enough to do to fill the 2 hours! After 90 minutes I give them a 10
minute break, and I need it more than they do! I look around the room
like, what can we do now??!! I swear the clock never moves during
this time. The emphasis on reading is getting too out of hand.

On 9/07/08, Terri F. wrote:
> We only have 18 minutes a day to do EITHER social studies OR
> science. Art is cut and paste when we can match it to the
> reading. In grades 2-5 at my school, the entire curriculum is
> shoved at a record pace into kids heads before testing- leaving a
> month or so afterwards of nothing. And at that rate, do they even
> retain or learn- no. First grade this year is now do adding and
> subtracting with regrouping. It's not even a state standard, but
> the publisher says they must learn- so our district admin goes
> along with it because of rules that say you MUST follow the
> publisher's curriculum with fidelity (sp?). Who cares what best
> practices are.
>
> Here's the real kicker though....our school was in school
> improvement year 2. We worked our butts off and are out. We have
> been out of school improvement status for 2 years now. It's hard,
> but we have a very dedicated staff. We are mostly minority and
> low socio-economic students. A very large percentage of ELL
> students. However, NCLB has deemed our district to be in district
> improvment status- so we are given rules and restrictions along
> with the entire rest of the disrtrict. I don't think that is
> right. Is this not like being put in jail for a crime we did not
> commit??
>
> Terri F.
> 1st grade
> CA

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