Michael Atherton wrote: "Who really hates this law? [No Child Left Behind] Public school administrators and teacher's unions. If you think about it for a while it won't take you long to figure out why."
A lot of parents hate this law too -- including me. The last thing we need is another set of testing that doesn't go back to the teachers and help them to help the individual students. The only testing that is useful to teachers is testing that is graded in time for them to see what the kids know and understand and what they don't know and need help with. NCLB doesn't do a darn thing to move the students forward and it costs a fortune -- in time and money. Neither of which the schools have much of, that's to our lovely Republican administrations. The Special Ed laws promised that the feds would pay 40% of SE costs -- instead they pay some paltry amount. When a fabulous school like Barton is on the hit list, you know something is wrong. This is clearly a scam to devalue and denigrate public schools. The schools need support and more money, not more trashing and money wasting tests. Diane Wiley Tangletown > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
