[Amelia]

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[shag377]

Here is a case-book example of how this law is fundamentally flawed to begin with.

My school got the AYP reports back. We missed the cut in English/Language Arts by five(5) kids this year. Five. We are again on the naughty list for AYP.

Right when we thought we would have made it, the State of Georgia changed the rules on the passing scores on the test, without informing anyone, after the test was taken by all of the students in the state.

I don’t like NCLB, but I do like the accountability portion. As a professional, I really don’t mind being held accountable, but I do mind being held accountable in a game of Calvinball [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinball#Calvinball], if you dont’ know to what I refer.