What you are talking about is warehousing, and that helps practically no one. Many low functioning kids can learn and need to be taught.
I think you would change your mind if it were one of your children.
The special ed children should be left out of the testing, however. My wife teaches special ed and is having to have kids that function on a 1st grade level tested on a 4th or 5th grade level when they cannot even read. That is ridiculous.
Some of the problems in the No Child Left Behind program is that states have to interpret it and they make many of their own rules to comply. They seem to make up rules that enable them to bash the program itself.
BTW, she is a rabid Bush fan even though she has to be in the NEA for insurance purposes.
What you are talking about is warehousing, and that helps practically no one. Many low functioning kids can learn and need to be taught.
I agree. Low funcitioning chidren who can learn need to learn basic skills of living. But they dont need to go to school to learn that.