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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
Yes, most "good" teachers actually have their students do well, but I worked in a low income district, where I would say 80% of the students were hispanic and of that 80%, 60% were monolingual English and of that 60% I would say 40-50% were illegal. You do the math on how well most of the kids in this district do on state high stakes tests!
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Welcome to my whole city
And they wonder why El Paso doesn't perform as well as other cities in Texas. Well shiiit, if my HS didn't have enough money to buy protractors for every student in every geometry class (my school only had 1000 kids in it anyways) BEFORE NCLB, why would they have enough money after NCLB? Especially when making AYP determines whether you get federal funding or not.
Something to consider....abiding by NCLB and all that comes with it is NOT mandatory. You don't have to follow what the federal government (or even the state government) says, but if you schools/school districts choose not to follow them, then they get NO funding whatsoever. If every school district in the nation decided to stop following NCLB, and teach the way teachers are suppose to think, (so essentially it's a boycott) do you think that would be enough of a clue for our administration to reconsider NCLB?
ETA: Why are you all still engaging gamma/MM? Just ignore him, and let him rot.