Klarinet Archive - Posting 000895.txt from 2004/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@------.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:07:47 -0500

In message <26559-40576586-6391@-.net>
ormondtoby@------.net (Ormondtoby Montoya) wrote:

> I was wrong to include my comment about learning handicaps when I posted
> about schools who have dropped music.
>
> The 'proper' distribution of resources between disabled and non-disabled
> is not on-topic here, and I was wrong to bring it up.
>
> We do not want another "amendment' blow-up on this list.

Well, the problem I had was that I didn't understand what you wrote.

You said,

> Although this doesn't relate to music, test scores of special education
> students (learning disabled) are penalized for using calculators and
> dictionaries during an exam. So one of our school districts is considering
> taking calculators and dictionaries away from special education students in
> order to improve the _district's_ overall test scores -- even though the
> special education students will do worse in their tests. Poorer
> performance, better scores. Talk about double-speak.

Can you explain a bit more clearly? Did you mean:

> ...one of our school districts is considering taking calculators and
> dictionaries away from ALL students in order to improve the _district's_
> overall test scores -- even though the special education students will do
> [much] worse in their tests.

?

Of course, I know that some people here will DIE of HEART ATTACKS if you talk
about something important -- like understanding an argument -- that isn't
about the fucking CLARINET.

Let them.

Tony
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