Klarinet Archive - Posting 000342.txt from 2004/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: re: no one left behind
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:24:24 -0400

At 06:33 PM 5/16/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I want the very best education possible for each and every child. I have
>spent
>the last 39 years trying to make this happen for the students I have taught.
>However, 8th grade level reading and math is just not POSSIBLE (in my
>experience) for a child with an IQ in the 50's; yet NCLB expects this of
>students at my school. We have 89+ per cent of 650 students on or above grade
>level and met 17 of the 18 NCLB standards. We are still a failing school
>according to NCLB, though our achievement is considerably above state and
>national levels. Go figure.

Apparently, the standards were set by politicians and collegiate academics
rather than teachers who actually have contact with students and know what
is reasonable and what is pie-in-the-sky. Reading is, in my opinion, the
single most important thing kids must learn in school, but it is ludicrous
to hold a 50-IQ student to the same standard as the rest.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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