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Miss Priss: I'm right with you. In MD, students have to pass four state tests in order to graduate: reading, writing, math and civics. Why did we have SENIORS who could not pass the reading and writing tests? I mean reading an eighth grade level short (five paragraphs) story and writing a short essay (beginning middle and end, paragraph at least five sentences long). I didint understand that in HS, but as I got older, I understood how some people dont test well, some do better on essays (me), some excel at MC (not me). I have serious issues with the No Child Left Behind Act (all filler, no substance--basically it says produce these results with the little you have now, or risk losing federal funding)
I had to leave my grad program in Special Ed because I got so frustrated with the idiotic policies. I love working with children but we have GOT to start doing better by them.
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