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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 480177" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>My biggest problem with NCLB (as a one-size-fits-all) is... districts are expected to <em>improve every year</em>.</p><p></p><p>So what happens to the districts that somehow are at the top? That cannot continue to improve? They get funding cuts.</p><p></p><p>The school I went to in elementary - before NCLB, of course - had about 20-25 kids per class. The teachers had enough time, not having to make the kids memorize stuff (teaching the test), that they could deal with the class in general, set up special stuff for the accelerated kids, and help the ones who needed it. Oh, did I mention we had 2 full-time classroom aides and random class mothers?</p><p></p><p>It comes back to funding. That school could <em>afford to hire more people</em>.</p><p></p><p>There was a girl in my 2nd-grade class who would be termed "severely mentally disabled" now - she got extra help, I remember only because the students also were tasked with helping her... 10 years later she was the salutatorian (that's the second highest right? I was nowhere near there!) of the class.</p><p></p><p>So. One size fits all swamps some, is skimpy for others, and doesn't fit the majority well at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 480177, member: 6705"] My biggest problem with NCLB (as a one-size-fits-all) is... districts are expected to [I]improve every year[/I]. So what happens to the districts that somehow are at the top? That cannot continue to improve? They get funding cuts. The school I went to in elementary - before NCLB, of course - had about 20-25 kids per class. The teachers had enough time, not having to make the kids memorize stuff (teaching the test), that they could deal with the class in general, set up special stuff for the accelerated kids, and help the ones who needed it. Oh, did I mention we had 2 full-time classroom aides and random class mothers? It comes back to funding. That school could [I]afford to hire more people[/I]. There was a girl in my 2nd-grade class who would be termed "severely mentally disabled" now - she got extra help, I remember only because the students also were tasked with helping her... 10 years later she was the salutatorian (that's the second highest right? I was nowhere near there!) of the class. So. One size fits all swamps some, is skimpy for others, and doesn't fit the majority well at all. [/QUOTE]
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