CRAP
Okay, Here's My Deal...
NCLB...AYP...ITBS...SINA...CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the educational acronym challenged, here are the translations:
No Child Left Behind...the federally legislated education act...without federal funding...Requiring ALL schools to reach their
Annual Yearly Progress...which is what the federal government mandates ALL students WILL achieve on standardized tests...regardless of ability or disability, economic status, willingness to learn, family support, attendance, etc. My school gives the
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills...to our students. Last year, the subgroup of sixth grade special education students (about 20 kids out of 550) failed to meet their AYP as outlined in the NCLB on the ITBS reading comprehension test...which led to us being on the "watch list" for this year...which means that if we don't meet the AYP again this year we will be a
School In Need of assistance...next year...which means a state education official comes in and takes over out professional development and dictates to us what our curriculum will be and how we will teach...which no one wants to happen and leads to the
Creation of Real Administrative Pressure on staff to get the job done no matter what it takes. We are being told to do anything short of teaching to the test to get kids to do well on the tests. Special education teachers have been told, "Your kids WILL be proficient and meet their AYP, no exceptions. To "help" their kids and "take pressure off of them (the kids)" they have been told basically they will test all of the kids one on one and that means they will not attend their regular mainstream classes regularly for almost 3 weeks so that the special teachers and associates and volunteers from the community can give them the attention they need and they are excused from doing any of the homework that they miss for the time they are not in class...three weeks of missed academic work so that they can pass ONE test?!?!?!?!
Yeah, that is educationally sound.
NCLB...AYP...ITBS...SINA...CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the educational acronym challenged, here are the translations:
No Child Left Behind...the federally legislated education act...without federal funding...Requiring ALL schools to reach their
Annual Yearly Progress...which is what the federal government mandates ALL students WILL achieve on standardized tests...regardless of ability or disability, economic status, willingness to learn, family support, attendance, etc. My school gives the
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills...to our students. Last year, the subgroup of sixth grade special education students (about 20 kids out of 550) failed to meet their AYP as outlined in the NCLB on the ITBS reading comprehension test...which led to us being on the "watch list" for this year...which means that if we don't meet the AYP again this year we will be a
School In Need of assistance...next year...which means a state education official comes in and takes over out professional development and dictates to us what our curriculum will be and how we will teach...which no one wants to happen and leads to the
Creation of Real Administrative Pressure on staff to get the job done no matter what it takes. We are being told to do anything short of teaching to the test to get kids to do well on the tests. Special education teachers have been told, "Your kids WILL be proficient and meet their AYP, no exceptions. To "help" their kids and "take pressure off of them (the kids)" they have been told basically they will test all of the kids one on one and that means they will not attend their regular mainstream classes regularly for almost 3 weeks so that the special teachers and associates and volunteers from the community can give them the attention they need and they are excused from doing any of the homework that they miss for the time they are not in class...three weeks of missed academic work so that they can pass ONE test?!?!?!?!
Yeah, that is educationally sound.
posted by Chelle | 10:17 PM
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