Re: NCLB

Terri F.

Posted on 11/07/09

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What gets me is that these studens have already qualified under
state and federal guidelines to have a disability that prevents
them from learning at the same rate as regular ed students. It
seems to me that something is not right in making these students
take grade level tests when they are performing 2 or more years
behind their grade. If it were my student, I would absolutely
be looking into the legality of this. I'm surprised more sp. ed
parents don't opt out their students from the main stream end of
year testing. Now, I'm no expert in this area of NCLB, so maybe
that wouldn't do any good if parents did that, but something
needs to be done. Teachers aren't being listened to, but
parents will be.

Terri F.
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