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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way they put all the low kids in one class. As a teacher who is livid at the amount of time spent on teaching to the test, and the way these testing companies are getting rich, I wish everyone would opt out.

If you keep the kid home, they will just have the kid take it another day in the several-week window. [/quote]

This is a very effective technique for principals to get rid of teachers they don’t like for whatever reason without having to do any paperwork. Put all the kids who are struggling academically and/or have behavior issues together in one class and watch that teacher lose their sanity. They also like to have a few strong students in those classes to serve as “role models” to make it look more “reasonable.” This is easy enough because some kids with IEPs are fine academically, and some kids with behavior issues are also on or above grade level. So not every single kid in there will be low performing, but anyone can see that the class is intentionally set up to fail. These difficult classes are classes that regular subs know to refuse. They can only get the subs who don’t know anything to go in or they have to pull another teacher to sub. This technique always work the few times I’ve seen it. One teacher quit mid-year and the others barely survived until the end of the year to transfer or move on.

Parents have no idea what’s going on unless they actually work there themselves or their child ends up in a similar class and tells them something. Many kids don’t tell their parents anything and some parents don’t care at all or they don’t believe their kids. I have only seen 1 parent figure it out because her child was a strong student who complained to her. While she believed her kid she couldn’t do anything about it at the time. She moved him to a different school the year after. [/quote]

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