Re: NCLB is a Joke

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> Actually, if a student fails the state test, the school is
> required to give him remediation. This can be done with double
> blocking. This allows extra practice for those students who
> can't keep up with the required pace otherwise.
>
Not in my state they are not. 85% of 6th and 7th graders in my state
(GA) failed the social studies test. Guess what, the state threw out
the test. Said the curriculum was bad, and the test was not aligned
to the curriculum! A year of work down the drain!

If a student fails his state test he can choose to go to summer
school for remediation, he can choose to take the test again with
out summer school, or repeat the grade and do neither. The choice of
what to do is up to the student not the school.

When I was a student the law was you had to take 4 years of English,
3 years of math, 3 years of science, 3 years of social studies to
pass high school. Now what courses you took where up to you! I know
people who took Earth Science, Biology and Chemistry and never took
Physics for example. I know people who took only one year of
American History and two years of World History. I never took high
school level geometry because I knew I couldn't pass it so I took
Algebra I, II and Pre-Calc. So in my old state (NJ) I was given the
options of what courses to take (except for English)

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