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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The problem in the past with little accountability was that teachers/educators were "passing" kids that were illiterate. Kids were graduating HS with only being able to read/write at a grade school level, if even that. Without the accountability, it is difficult to root out such teachers/educators. It's not just some teachers that were doing this, but Principals were also allowing it. So, how would you stop this from happening without some kind of standardized testing? [/quote]

You do realize that there are students who will never be able to read because of dyslexia (and there is a spectrum for this).  It doesn't mean that they can' learn, but taking reading tests will be a problem.  I also have a student right now who is very low IQ (80) and cannot write (and I have tried to get him to and he slams computers on the floor).  He has been kicked out of schools for assaulting students and teachers.  Put up for expulsion four times since grade school.  He is homeless right now.  Do you think I should be held accountable for his lack of writing?  I do not want to be assaulted so I have not been forcing him to write.  He is emotionally disturbed (classified).  He has been kicked out of two centers for the emotionally disturbed.  After four months I feel some victory in the fact that he doesn't drop the "f" bomb every other word when he speaks.

There is usually a story behind the ones who are illiterate.  And if a kid gets to grade 12 and has absolutely no issues and cannot read, well, then I would expect that he has not been attending school (because I have never seen a school that is that bad).

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I'm not talking about SN/LD kids.

From Nation at Risk report back in the early 80's
"About 13 percent of all 17-year-olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent."

You are telling me that those figures are mostly SN/LD kids?

And they do this at the college level, too.  Some educators keep perpetuating it.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/03/college-gives-illiterate-students-a-pass-to-keep-them-playing-sports/

"So far, few people seem to be pointing out that some high schools are graduating illiterates."

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