Re: facts

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/4/2006 12:17:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
dkeikoa@hawaii.rr.com writes:


The point I  was making was we didn’t make AYP because of one subgroup – the 
disabled. And  that is why we are in restructuring.
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And after six consecutive years of failing to make AYP, maybe  children will 
be better off in a restructured school.  And that is the  whole point, isn't 
it?
 
 
Anyways,  this past year, they changed the number of students needed for the 
subgroup to  be counted so someone must have agreed with us that it was unfair 
that schools  be penalized for the results of one subgroup. So now we made 
AYP. A numbers game  that has little to do with student  achievement.
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What is  astonishing about this, far more than the games being played around 
AYP, is the  assertion that schools are being "penalized" by NCLB.  NCLB 
requires  states to provide additional resources to schools where too many children 
fail  to achieve adequately.  This should have been the start of tremendous  
improvements to schools that need it most.  This pernicious myth,  that 
schools are being "punished" or "penalized" by NCLB, as if schools  lose when 
children benefit, poisons discussion of what would most  help parents and children 
and is one of the most unfortunate, irresponsible  and reprehensible of the 
many distortions spread about NCLB on this  list.  
 
Art