Re: sped split on state tests in other parts of

[LAndrews1@aol.com]

In a message dated 05/11/2003 2:23:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, learn@jps.net 
writes:

> You seem to be saying that children with average intelligence are unlikely 
> to have any disabilities severe enough to prevent them from passing a high 
> school exit exam.
> 

No. My son also has  a learning disability so I am empathetic in this regard. 
I am not callous. It is just that in my experience ( in the course of my job 
I read through scads of IEPs, psych evaluations, educational assessments etc 
from a number of  different school districts), the students who are exempted 
from assessment are marginalized.  If the schools don't have to "count them" 
they focus on the kids that will count, possibly. This is ESPECIALLY true of 
the kids with near average intelligence. Long before NCLB the schools were 
content to put bright children with   LD--or even just with lower than the 
community standard socioeconomic status-- in  low level classes.

Linda