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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You're kidding right? Millions of kids graduating from school semiliterate, barely able to string together a coherent sentence, unable to make change, unable to find the Pacific Ocean on a world map, and you think that was perfectly good. [/quote]

Listen, there are kids who are born with problems . . . we are keeping lots of babies alive who would not have lived in the past . . . through advances in medicine.  Some of them are unable to do the things you are citing above and it has nothing to do with a teacher who can't build a chicken coop.  And under NCLB they all have to be tested, even kids who are dying in hospitals.   I think the chickens have flown your coop.  [/quote]

Not all disabilities are the same, for example a kid with severe mental issues who will *never* learn to read, versus a kid who is confined to a wheelchair for life but has an IQ of 150.  I guess that didn't occur to you when you wrote off that brilliant kid in the wheelchair.  Also, that info, about whether a kid has a severe learning disability, what their IEPs and 504s say is captured and known, as well as what accomodations must be made for testing.  So if your school administration isn't taking that into consideration then again, that's a failing and incompetence at the local level that won't go away simply by getting rid of NCLB.[/quote]

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