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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 480098" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Among the many issues with nclb.... kids in Special Education are expected to be able to meet that bar, and the bar for the districts goes up yearly. This law is in direct contradiction to the law that allows a child to enter special education services, the fact that they typically (yes we know there are exceptions in terms of social skills and behavior issue kinds of kiddos) are in special education because they are in the lowest of the percentile ranks, like 4th %ile and lower (general average here). If they could all meet those bars there would be no need for Special Education, haha. The mess was predicted from the beginning. Only those schools who dont have enough numbers to be able to count their Special Education. kids in the formula can make progress in that category. And those schools are generally not the good ones for Special Education. The ones that are taking the job on, having popular Special Education. programs which may attract more and more families to the school are getting penalized for their efforts. There are plans in the works to drastically stop this and re-think it. Predictions are that all schools will end up in non compliance unless they are a school that has no Special Education, no English as second language and no minority students. They do need to monitor to make sure all kids get the same chance, it is disturbing to see trends that show low income and minority students are not being able to keep up to the same level as others. But another issue is that kids are not counted in one category so for suburban areas for example, many of the "minority" kids are also ESL kids who of course can not do as well on standardized testing. There are just too many factors. Has to be a better way to monitor this. I agree, the theory was great, practice has been awful.</p><p></p><p>Was re-reading the sentence that schools used to do a mighty fine job... but in many places special needs kids were legally denied access to school and if in were not treated fairly so their lives were not counted in the school statistics. some things are worse but some things are much much better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 480098, member: 12886"] Among the many issues with nclb.... kids in Special Education are expected to be able to meet that bar, and the bar for the districts goes up yearly. This law is in direct contradiction to the law that allows a child to enter special education services, the fact that they typically (yes we know there are exceptions in terms of social skills and behavior issue kinds of kiddos) are in special education because they are in the lowest of the percentile ranks, like 4th %ile and lower (general average here). If they could all meet those bars there would be no need for Special Education, haha. The mess was predicted from the beginning. Only those schools who dont have enough numbers to be able to count their Special Education. kids in the formula can make progress in that category. And those schools are generally not the good ones for Special Education. The ones that are taking the job on, having popular Special Education. programs which may attract more and more families to the school are getting penalized for their efforts. There are plans in the works to drastically stop this and re-think it. Predictions are that all schools will end up in non compliance unless they are a school that has no Special Education, no English as second language and no minority students. They do need to monitor to make sure all kids get the same chance, it is disturbing to see trends that show low income and minority students are not being able to keep up to the same level as others. But another issue is that kids are not counted in one category so for suburban areas for example, many of the "minority" kids are also ESL kids who of course can not do as well on standardized testing. There are just too many factors. Has to be a better way to monitor this. I agree, the theory was great, practice has been awful. Was re-reading the sentence that schools used to do a mighty fine job... but in many places special needs kids were legally denied access to school and if in were not treated fairly so their lives were not counted in the school statistics. some things are worse but some things are much much better. [/QUOTE]
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