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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Has it occurred to anyone on this thread that those of us with children who have LDs already have enough of an uphill battle on our hands. Introducing a new set of "Not-well thought-out, Not-well-executed, Exclusionary Standards" - and by Exclusionary I mean that the standards do not take into account that many of our kids are poor critical thinkers - for the time being that is - and introducing THAT requirement as part of the math curricuulum is a crime! The ones who do not understand this are the ones who's kids are floating through school without any major or even minor hiccups.

These standards are SEGREGATING our children even more than they already are!! Yes - SEGREGATION, I said it!!
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You're quite hysterical about all the wrong things. The fact that your kid is a poor critical thinker (your words, not mine) has no bearing on the fact that critical thinking skills are important and a developmental benchmark to insure that those skills are being acquired is a reasonable thing. If we think critical thinking skills are important, then we need to be able to assess how we know they are being learned. That's what a standard is. A benchmark. The benchmark is not a crime and it doesn't segregate your child. If your child is segregated, then it is the very unfortunate LD that segregates your child. Luckily, we have measures for addressing the unfortunate gap between where your child is at, skill wise, and where they should be developmentally. Rather than blame the logical establishment of benchmarks, take your fight to the implementation phase and what supports will be in place to help your chid reach the benchmarks.[/quote]

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