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]]> http://kayda.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/failing-schools-in-macomb-county/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Hilary Piette Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:55:41 +0000 http://kayda.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/failing-schools-in-macomb-county/#comment-2 Hi Kayda, I can understand why something like this situation would hit so closely. I'm also writing about No Child Left Behind and like you, I tend to take this subject based on social ideas or injustices. This article you read really fascinated me for these very reasons. In an area which is increasingly more based in minorities and special education students, the government expects some miraculous improvement when teachers and students are being pulled from the classrooms. Why? This enables instructors to have more meetings on how to do this. While some discussion is necessary, I also think that this takes away from the actual learning experiences and regarding the time which is left, students are required to solely learn to perform on one test. I don't understand why in spite of the many voices against No Child Left Behind the government continues to pursue this legislature. Especially when considering second language learners because rather than learning to speak, read and write the language they are being forced to learn how to take a test. Then many in our country will complain that the use of English is declining. I hope I'm not the only one who catches this irony. I think it's important that more teachers are being hired but again, most of the responsibility should not solely be theirs but a collective effort. Teachers themselves should not be graded on a test and the government should recognize that being in the classroom is not necessarily "black and white" but that many districts have different situations. Hi Kayda,
I can understand why something like this situation would hit so closely. I’m also writing about No Child Left Behind and like you, I tend to take this subject based on social ideas or injustices. This article you read really fascinated me for these very reasons.
In an area which is increasingly more based in minorities and special education students, the government expects some miraculous improvement when teachers and students are being pulled from the classrooms. Why? This enables instructors to have more meetings on how to do this. While some discussion is necessary, I also think that this takes away from the actual learning experiences and regarding the time which is left, students are required to solely learn to perform on one test. I don’t understand why in spite of the many voices against No Child Left Behind the government continues to pursue this legislature. Especially when considering second language learners because rather than learning to speak, read and write the language they are being forced to learn how to take a test. Then many in our country will complain that the use of English is declining. I hope I’m not the only one who catches this irony. I think it’s important that more teachers are being hired but again, most of the responsibility should not solely be theirs but a collective effort. Teachers themselves should not be graded on a test and the government should recognize that being in the classroom is not necessarily “black and white” but that many districts have different situations.

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