From Deseret News archives:
No teacher will be left standing
Or, as educators fondly call it, No Child Left Untested. Or, No Teacher Left Standing. Or, No Child Left. Or, No Child's Behind Left.
I hope you picked up the sarcasm. If there's one thing that makes a teacher madder than a kid with a spitball, it's this Alice-in-Wonderland legislation.
In case you haven't heard, or you have and you're totally confused remember, these are the same people who wrote the tax laws the law is this: By the year 2014, every child in public school must achieve grade-level proficiency in reading, math and science.
What a great idea perfect children!!! Next the feds will require the Justice Department to reform every criminal in the United States en route to closing all prisons by 2020.
But you can't mean every child, you're thinking. Yes, every child.
Well, you can't mean kids with severe learning disabilities, you're thinking. Yes. Well, you can't mean kids who don't speak English, you're thinking. Yes and the law requires that they be tested in English, too.
Each school is required to give expensive tests and show prescribed progress annually, ultimately ending in perfection in 10 years with every child producing a C or better in math, English and science. Not only does the entire student body have to demonstrate annual progress, but the law requires that each sub-group children in poverty, special ed, minorities, transients, learning disabled must make the same progress as the mainstream group.
Fortunately, teachers have lots of spare time to work with these kids, and they can easily fit in the tests and the extra work with the slower kids when they're not pulling playground, bus and cafeteria duty, serving on committees, taking in-service classes, mentoring other teachers, teaching overcrowded classes and grading papers at home just before collapsing in bed. It's the teacher's and school's fault if one kid who doesn't speak English screws up their batting average.
If a school fails to achieve AYP (adequate yearly progress), the entire school is officially labeled a failure. If a school fails to hit AYP for two years, then it faces federally mandated punishments such as termination for teachers and a letter notifying all parents that the school has failed and that they can demand private tutors at school expense and transfer to another school with the school covering the transportation costs.
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