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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PARCC is punitive.  Rather than offer assistance to schools that are low-performing and identifying ways to improve equity, we punish teachers and students for factors beyond their control.

I told my children that if they ever entertained education as a major, I'd pull their college funds from them.

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That's not a testing problem, it's a school district problem.[/quote]

seriously?

So it's a system's fault?

especially when it's forced by federal and state mandates to test kids regardless of their reading levels?

You're blaming the systems?

sort of like blaming the victims, eh?

good job, genius[/quote]

There's nothing inherently wrong with testing kids regardless of their reading levels.  What's wrong is punishing teachers because of their ESL, Special Needs and other students who may have good reasons for not being at the appropriate reading level - but again, that's not something that NCLB mandates or requires, that's stupidity happening at the local level.  At some point you need to get it through your head that getting rid of testing won't remove that stupidity problem and it will still be a threat to teachers regardless of Common Core or NCLB.   At some point you need to recognize and understand that change needs to happen at the local level rather than blaming everyone else (which won't solve your problem).[/quote]

At some point, you need to realize you're an idiot.

We teachers have NO say in anything.  People can protest all they want. They can quit.  Nothing will change. We have NO power.  So yes, I blame the powers that be.  What have any of these PARCC protests earned for us?  for the kids?

nothing

Observe a teacher for one day in a challenging environment and see if you don't learn a thing or two.  Not even our own administrators step in when we're short staffed.  not one - too afraid

Good God, PP - Are you THAT simple?  [/quote]

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