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The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 6:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

I don't think I've welcomed you....must have missed your intro thread.

Anyway, its very simple.  People who don't know jack shit about education think that testing is good to show "progress."  Far too many school boards are dominated by such people.

Welcome to our little oasis of sanity in a crazy world.

Actually, you did welcome me in my intro thread. We shared jokes about about whether my name referred to coffee or the fossilized early humans my nickname might refer to.

Good times...
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 5:46 pm)Javaman Wrote: Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

Standardized testing pretty much runs counter to what we know about educating children. Why does the media have such hard-on for the results of standardized testing?

Step 1 to improving public education: eliminate standardized testing. Then we can move forward.

Title IV funding. 

Schools receive funds from Title IV based on academic scores. Since the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) act was putt into motion, many schools and LEA's (Local Education Authorities) have struggled to reach the scores necessary to receive that funding from the Federal Government. Supposedly, scores from special needs classes/students/ are lumped in with the rest of the student body scores in order to comply with the NCLB act. This in turn, brings down the overall score for the schools and the LEA's (Local Educational Agency).

This is what I know from being the mother of a special needs student. But certainly forcing someone like me to make my child institutionalized should be a crime. Does my daughter not have the same rights as any other child when it comes to education and learning and being at home with her parents? Yes. Putting my daughter in an institution just so some stupid school board doesn't have to have its schools reflect lower test scores is an abomination and anyone proposing such a ludicrous thing should be publicly removed from their position and should have to issue a public apology to all of the families they offended. 

You send your teachers through continuous learning seminars/classes so they are better equipped to handle teaching special needs students. You make programs available to those students, which they have a right to under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). You strive to do better by all  of the students in your district so that none of them have to pay the price for your arrogance and unwillingness to properly make sure all educational opportunities are in place for them. 

Most importantly: you don't hire or elect any officials to sit on your BOE who are going to be a detriment to any improvements or opportunities your district needs to make to become better. And you sure as hell make sure they don't set your district back 60 fucking years when they stupidly propose institutionalizing some of its citizens as a way of getting better test scores.  Angry Angry Angry

(August 24, 2017 at 6:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Why oh why are people still so enamored of standardized testing? Why do people still believe such things are necessary to providing and guiding public education?

I don't think I've welcomed you....must have missed your intro thread.

Anyway, its very simple.  People who don't know jack shit about education think that testing is good to show "progress."  Far too many school boards are dominated by such people.

Welcome to our little oasis of sanity in a crazy world.

LOL Min... he's been here for six years.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 6:26 pm)Javaman Wrote:
(August 24, 2017 at 6:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I don't think I've welcomed you....must have missed your intro thread.

Anyway, its very simple.  People who don't know jack shit about education think that testing is good to show "progress."  Far too many school boards are dominated by such people.

Welcome to our little oasis of sanity in a crazy world.

Actually, you did welcome me in my intro thread. We shared jokes about about whether my name referred to coffee or the fossilized early humans my nickname might refer to.

Good times...

Must have been a while ago.  I'm old.  I forget.

Quote: LOL Min... he's been here for six years.

92 posts in 6 years?  I do that in an afternoon.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
You can exactly be expected to remember the content of tens of thousands of posts.

As for the OP, yet another unintended consequence. What utter shit. As a former resident of Alabama, all I can say is I'm not surprised.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
Well I normally look at a person's join date before welcoming them... It has nothing to do with how many posts they've made in x number of years lol.

Besides, I was being facetious.

I'll shut up now and just stick to what I know.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 4:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Or at least get rid of the shitheads on it.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/alabama-...st-scores/


Quote:Alabama state school board member wants to institutionalize special needs students to boost test scores

Quote:A member of the state-wide Alabama Board of Education wanted to know why the state couldn’t force parents to put their special needs children into institutions so that test scores would increase in the schools.

Where do they find these dumbasses.

Oh right.... probably in republicunt churches.
If that member is a product of alabama's public schools....it's unlikely that institutionalizing the undesirables will raise their scores anyway.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
I can barely believe they are proposing this it's so odious. I wonder what the mechanism would be to force parents to institutionalize their kids? Would they refuse to teach them? Or have the parents arrested?
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 7:36 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I can barely believe they are proposing this it's so odious. I wonder what the mechanism would be to fore parents to institutionalize their kids? Would they refuse to teach them? Or have the parents arrested?

It does sound quite a bit Orwellian doesn't it?
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 7:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(August 24, 2017 at 7:36 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I can barely believe they are proposing this it's so odious. I wonder what the mechanism would be to fore parents to institutionalize their kids? Would they refuse to teach them? Or have the parents arrested?

It does sound quite a bit Orwellian doesn't it?
Dystopian, like the shittiest of all possible futures.
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RE: The Alabama Board of Education Had Best Clean Up Its Act
(August 24, 2017 at 7:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(August 24, 2017 at 6:26 pm)Javaman Wrote: Actually, you did welcome me in my intro thread. We shared jokes about about whether my name referred to coffee or the fossilized early humans my nickname might refer to.

Good times...

Must have been a while ago.  I'm old.  I forget.

Quote: LOL Min... he's been here for six years.

92 posts in 6 years?  I do that in an afternoon.

In your defense, I lurk more than I post. That being said, I won't pretend it doesn't wound just a little. Dammit, I though my wittiness would persevere through time. Alas....
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