Dear Editors:
I am writing in response to your recent article about McKinley Elementary School, where a teacher was recently accused of giving answers to a student while administering the California Standards Test. Our son, a McKinley student, is not in the third grade class where the alleged cheating took place. He did [...]
In the Sunshine State they want to judge schools for the intellectually disabled with the same standardized tests they give to typical children. Guess what? It’s happening everywhere. Guess what else? Just as Florida seems to be backing down from this policy some disability rights groups want to keep it in force. They [...]
After reading this post by Nirvi Shah, California Father commented tersely:
I guess no one in the NCLD teaches. Keeping schools accountable by teaching children with disabilities to the same mind-numbing, spirit-killing tests we subject general ed kids to is doing them no favors. NCLD should [...]
Heard during this week’s California Standards Test:
Student 1: This is easy.
Student 2: They want us to pass this year.
It sure seemed like it. Though my students still struggled with the English language test, unless I’m completely delusional (and I might be), the math test seemed [...]
Too much valuable instruction time is taken away from teaching meaningful tasks that could lead to more independent lives, the tests are not respectful of the students and they do not accurately reflect the goals of the students’ Individual Educational Plans, parents and educators said.
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