No Child Left Behind Act

Reacting to Federal Guidelines, the state of Florida, which has been highlighted as a role model for student testing by the Bush Administration's Department of Education has released the following memo:

In response to President Bush's Federal No Child Left Behind Act, students will have to pass a new test to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hopes that it will be uniformly adopted by all the states, thus elevating Florida to a glorious front runner position in education, it will be called: the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test (FART).

All students who cannot pass a FART in the second grade will be retested in grades 3-5 until such a time as they are capable of achieving a FART score of 80%. If a student does not successfully FART by grade 5, that student shall be placed in a separate English program, the Special Mastery Elective for Learning Language (SMELL).

If with this increased SMELL program the student still cannot pass the required FART, he or she can graduate to middle school by taking a one-semester course in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation (CRAP).

If by age fourteen the student cannot FART, SMELL or CRAP, he will earn his promotion in an intensive one-week seminar entitled the Preparatory Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students (PRUNES).

It is the opinion of the Florida Department of Public Instruction that an intensive week of PRUNES will enable any student to pass a FART, SMELL and CRAP.

This revised provision of the student-testing component of the House Bill 110 should help "clear the air".

i almost did not read this thread. Glad i did. thanks for the laugh

There are big problems with our edumacational system... Kids in Middle and High Schools who can't read? Teachers giving out answers to standardized tests before hand so they (the teachers) don't look incompetent? Without standards, testing, accountability, etc… Things will never change. The educational “system” including the NEA is a dinosaur that needs to be revamped. They are more concerned with their own arses than they are providing a quality education to our children…

Me failed English? That's umpossible.

Wow after all these tests...we got

No Child's Behind Left...

I might be changing the subject here, but you know what I find outrageous?

A friend of mine wants to hold his kid back in the 3rd grade because he can’t do the homework he’s assigned and failing most of the class. The school is pushing back on him telling him that it will be damaging to the kid to hold him back as it will reduce his confidence so they should pass him. He’s actually been in several meetings trying to convince the school to hold back his kid. Where did we go off track to think that failure is a bad thing?

Thanks for the thread, my wife (a 1st grade teacher) will get a kick out of it. She is continually frustrated that they school system is forcing them to teach to a test as opposed to teaching what each child needs. Consequently she is "retiring early" to an even nobler profession, full time mommy.



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Not even going to LOOK at the soap box.

I'll just be happy to say my kid is enrolled in the GATE program (gifted and talented education) and STILL manages to get straight A's. 4.0 gpa. Gotta love the kid. He's going to save me a ton of money in college tuition. (Yeah, like I was gonna pay for that)

Oh yeah... Michael Jackson has a new bill too. The No Childs Behind Left Alone Act. Hehehehe

No Child Left Behind Act is a joke.
Bush pushed for this and then dropped funding for things like Head Start, trade education and anything that doesn't have to do with reading, writing, arithmetic and PE.
Then they have "grading" for the schools, so what do the schools do? Send the kids home that they know aren't going to do well on the tests, the day of the testing, to keep their "grading" up.

when jaime escalante set out to teach his students calculus, calculus was not the goal.

the goal was to learn a subject as difficult as calculus. the goal was to teach his students that they had abilities they didn't know they had and with
hard work and diligence they could accomplish more then thought they could.

I agree with RICKAMAVEN.