Re: FW: Open Letter

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/21/2006 8:00:27 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
pgutpgut@msn.com writes:

...You have yet to honestly address the FACT that sped students whose  
cognitive functioning will never permit them to reach proficiency, according  to the 
letter and spirit of the law, MUST be proficient by 2014.  You  have yet to 
address the FACT that these students who are being forced to take  the test so 
that their school district will be in compliance with the 90% rule  are 
preventing schools from making AYP. You have yet to address the FACT that  lack of 
proficiency in even one category prevents a school from making  AYP.  And you 
have yet to address the rampant gaming and corruption  within the Reading First 
program at the Department of Ed.  Not convenient  for you?...

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I don't know what "addressing the FACT" means to  you.  Leave no child behind 
means leave no child behind.   NCLB says that states, districts, and schools 
should test all their  students and should work for improvement when children 
with special  needs are not achieving the same standards as other  children.  
Those are indeed the facts.  Whether you are motivated  by these facts to work 
for improvement or motivated by them to oppose  NCLB or have other motivation 
is up to you.  It seems to me that  you choose to see floors when you should 
be looking for  ceilings.  What am I supposed to say about the "rampant gaming 
and  corruption within RF/DOE" beyond that it's wrong and that is has  
nothing to do with schools not making AYP because of students with special  needs?



By the way, you misunderstand "transference."  

Art