[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.

[JenB]

So it sounds like your main complaint matches this editorial - states moving the goalposts around and messing with the federal standards. Is that a fair statement?

[A_perfect_lady]

I'm in Los Angeles. We miss it every year because half our students are illegals who just keep pouring in, speaking no English and barely able to read or write in Spanish either. We get them and in three weeks we're supposed to transform them into the kids from Dead Poet's Society.

It doesn't help that they're used to Mexican schools where they can be beaten, and when they realize that there's no beating in American schools, they run amok, screaming in joy. Because once you've smacked a kid around, being given 15 minutes of trash pick-up doesn't particularly bother them. It's miserable. I am seriously considering relocating to Fargo if my writing career doesn't eventually save me from this job.