Re: [LM_NET] nytimes article: A Popular Princ ipal, Wounded by Gov ernment=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99s?= Good Intenti ons

[Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

This article makes me so angry. Where has common sense gone to? It seems like 
everyday we see another example of this type of thinking - suspend a student for 
bringing a butter knife to school to cut brownies, suspend a kindergartener for 
hugging a student, fire a principal because we don't track student's progress only 
measure by a test they can't pass at that point in their educational journey. 
Locally we had a school whose student body is composed of severly disabled student 
land in the bottom 5%- worst school for the same reason. Some of the students in 
this school can't talk or take care of their basic needs but they "SHOULD' pass the 
test. Or as one principal said "These student are considered learning diabled 179 
days out of 180 but on this one test day we expect them to function on the same 
level as our most gifted students" We are intelligent, educated people , surely we 
can do better
 
Darlene Yasick
Retired
Wyoming, MI

--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: [LM_NET] nytimes article: A Popular Principal, Wounded by Gov ernment’s 
Good Intentions
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 8:02 AM


An illustration of the unintended consequences of testing accountability
and the RTTT grant. The example of the refugee child and his lack of
understanding of human space travel, said it all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/education/19winerip.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th


-- 
Kristina Fallon, LMS
Robert Morris School, pk-8
So Bound Brook, NJ
librarychickie@gmail.com
"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus, (Greek-born, Roman slave and
philosopher- 55 AD - 135 AD)

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