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In my opinion, this is bull.

I'm a graduate of a "failing" high school that hasn't reached its expected AYP in four years (at the present, but i know things weren't that different while I was there). There was one big problem with using one single band-aid over the entire school- this same high school also provided one of the best educations in the state. In essence, my high school suffered from being two high schools in the same building with the same administration. If you were in the AP classes and academically pushed yourself (or were pushed by your parents), you would get a quality education that very well prepared me for a college career. I watched friends get into MIT, Yale, Williams College, and many other top universities nationwide.

But, if you weren't- if you were in the regular classes0 you received the "failing" education that meant you were the students targeted by the testing, who failed it and cause the school to be forced into the failing category.

What in the world would putting my high school into the failing district do? I guarantee the "solutions" provided to help fix the problems would only hurt the students who were doing well.

ETA: I know that my high school had real problems that did need solutions. But I certainly don't think this would help them at all.