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And your brilliant solution is just to have the children fail the tests, year after year after year after year?

Because that's what is going to happen if children are tested at 3 to 5 grades above their reading levels. [/quote]

What?

They are tested once each year on the state standards.

But the other days of the year, they are TAUGHT how to read, using materials and methods as specified in their IEPs, which are designed to get them up to grade level.

Just because they have to take one test a year doesn't mean they can't be taught how to read, starting at their reading level.
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Every minute of every school day is going to be all about the end of the year tests, because teachers who have their kids fail are going to be fired -- the tests are tied to their jobs. SO you create a bitter circle of certain failure. No one is going to want to teach special ed within 5 years.

And kids who sit for hours in tests they can't possible do are having terrible reactions all over the country. Their anxiety is through the roof.

Tell you what: You go sit for 10 hours for an Engineering test in Chinese. And if you don't pass it, we'll take away your diploma, your job, your home, your bank account and any chance you have to make it in the world.

And you have do it year after year after year, or we'll threaten and harass your parents. [/quote]

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