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Re: NCLB is a Joke
Posted by Chris IL on 7/26/08
Our district is the same. I think it is an IL thing. We have a gifted magnet
school as well as self contained programs for children who receive severe ED or
special ed. labels. They are receiving appropriate education. However, the
"gifted" scores are reported to the school they attend while the other program
scores are reported to their home schools. I don't think that school should
take the hit for all those below scores, but I think it would be fair, if we are
separating scores based on attendance area, that both sets of scores be reported
to their home school.
On 7/10/08, 3rdChicago wrote:
> Our school was in a similar boat. In summer 2007, we were initially told
> we made AYP. Then when we came back to school in September 2007, the state
> came back to us and took it away, claiming that after they factored in all
> the students in our attendance are - EVEN THOSE NOT ATTENDING OUR SCHOOL -
> we no longer met our goals.
>
> So, in short - all of our ACTUAL students met the goals and reached AYP.
> Students WHO DO NOT ATTEND, AND NEVER HAVE ATTENDED, our school did NOT
> meet the goals but counted against us because they are within our boundary.
>
> And now we "NEED IMPROVEMENT."
>
> I can't wait for NCLB to GO AWAY.
>
> On 7/07/08, doh wrote:
>> This is what NCLB has done for my school.
>>
>> I teach in a middle school that has come off of Needs Improvement list
>> about 4 years ago. I teach in an inner city style school. There are
>> children who have never stepped foot in our school because of behavioral
>> problems and they go to a special behavior school.
>>
>> YET, because they live in our attendance zone, all of their attendance and
>> test score information counts towards our school. We have 50 students who
>> have never gone to our school, who live in our attendance zone, and have
>> failed all of their state mandated tests, and now they have counted
>> against us, and we are going back on the Needs Improvement List.
>>
>> Is that what NCLB was supposed to do? Punish a school for students who
>> don't even go there!!!!!
>>
Posts on this thread, including this one
- It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/26/08, by Tom (Houston).
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/28/08, by Kim/AR/math.
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/29/08, by Tom (Houston).
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/29/08, by Kim/AR/math.
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/30/08, by Jean Bullock.
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 6/30/08, by Rosie.
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 7/01/08, by Rose B/2nd/CA.
- Re: It Ignores an Old Fact of Life, 7/01/08, by Kim/AR/math.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/07/08, by doh.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/08/08, by strange.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/09/08, by ashley.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/10/08, by 3rdChicago.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/26/08, by Chris IL.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/26/08, by Lea.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 7/26/08, by Kim/AR/math.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 8/04/08, by doh.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 11/04/08, by Seriously here is the joke.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 11/05/08, by Tessa- FL.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 11/07/08, by Ciarra.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 11/08/08, by frustrated.
- Re: NCLB is a Joke, 11/12/08, by libteacher.
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