Reply #4: NCLB is a set up [View All]

[LizW]

The way the scoring is done sets schools and systems up to be labeled "failing". For instance, children in special ed, and children who don't speak English are required to be given the same test as other children in their grade level. They receive no accomodation at all. Of course they don't score well. If a school or a system has over 40 children in these categories, and those children don't meet the arbitrary goals, the whole school or the whole system is called "failing". Systems like Mountain Brook and Vestavia don't have enough children in these groups, so they don't count if they "fail". System-wide, Hoover is much more diverse, so they get a "fail" in those special ed and ESL areas. The way the scoring works, if you get a "fail" in even one block of the grid, the whole system is labeled a "failure".

NCLB is a fraud. The whole purpose is to promote the meme that public schools aren't doing a good job, and should lose federal funding.

This is my 9th year to have children in Hoover schools. I'm very pleased. It's not perfect, but the teachers and administrators we have had have been great. The challenges to the school system are getting bigger all the time, but I wouldn't want my kids anywhere else.