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The Sad State of Special Education in New York
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 56383" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>While I realize that there are schools that are not meeting the needs of special education students, let me tell you the other side. Statistics are not always what they seem.</p><p></p><p>The high school I teach at is a high-performing school by any measure. We are on Newsweek's top 1000 high school list, score well above the national SAT average, and send students to Ivy League schools every year.</p><p></p><p>And yet, we were a school on NCLB's needs improvement list for two years for not making AYP. The reason? We are a host school for a class of severely disabled students. These students will never walk, talk, or be able to live independently, never mind hold down a job. However, these students are counted toward our AYP. Although they do not have to take state mandated tests, they do have a checklist of goals. Our teachers rated the progress honestly and because some students did not receive enough checks, our school was rated as needing improvement.</p><p></p><p>NCLB is clearly at odds with IDEA and my professor in a recent class predicted that would be the very thing that brings down NCLB. It can't happen soon enough as far as I am concerned.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 56383, member: 1967"] While I realize that there are schools that are not meeting the needs of special education students, let me tell you the other side. Statistics are not always what they seem. The high school I teach at is a high-performing school by any measure. We are on Newsweek's top 1000 high school list, score well above the national SAT average, and send students to Ivy League schools every year. And yet, we were a school on NCLB's needs improvement list for two years for not making AYP. The reason? We are a host school for a class of severely disabled students. These students will never walk, talk, or be able to live independently, never mind hold down a job. However, these students are counted toward our AYP. Although they do not have to take state mandated tests, they do have a checklist of goals. Our teachers rated the progress honestly and because some students did not receive enough checks, our school was rated as needing improvement. NCLB is clearly at odds with IDEA and my professor in a recent class predicted that would be the very thing that brings down NCLB. It can't happen soon enough as far as I am concerned. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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