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[quote=Anonymous]This entire thread is a example of bad learning. The poster complaining about NCLB when it hasn't been federal education law for nearly a decade. Complaining about school integration. Complaining about IDEA. Complaining about testing.

Segregation was wrong. Period. There is never separate but equal.

IDEA does need to be tweaked. There is a huge difference between students with ADHD and dyslexia versus severely cognitively impaired, but its the latter ones who consume most of the funds.

Testing. It's true that what gets measured gets taught. However, without some measure, we have no objective idea of how students and schools are doing. There are definite flaws to the system - end of year assessments where scores don't come until after students have moved on and don't tell teachers anything about their students - are not helpful.

The real problem in education is not in classrooms or SBOE or the US Dept of Ed, it lies at home. The parents who are not involved in their kids' life or who don't know how to parent are raising (or rather, not raising) kids that are disrupting everyone else. It is a small minority dragging everyone else down. [/quote]

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