Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 21, 2007 - 05:33.
Blaming the parents is a very old and tired excuse. We do not have the liberty of deciding which child is in an "impossible to overcome" situation. A lot of very smart people put a lot of thought into NCLB. I don't believe that they made this decision arbitrarily. The fact is, excellent schools and excellent teachers find ways to overcome the effects of seemingly impossible situations. It comes down to whether the school has the will and the courage to do the things that they know are necessary to make a difference.
Any public school teacher who blames their school’s problems on “one or two minority groups” needs to think a little deeper about what this country has set out to accomplish. We all know there are a lot of negative things going on in this country. The children in our classrooms are a reflection of society at large. But where do we begin to break the cycles of ignorance and poverty? Is it too much to ask that every child who spends a year in a classroom be able to demonstrate that he or she has achieved minimum competency on a given set of instructional standards? I don’t think so.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 21, 2007 - 05:33.
Blaming the parents is a very old and tired excuse. We do not have the liberty of deciding which child is in an "impossible to overcome" situation. A lot of very smart people put a lot of thought into NCLB. I don't believe that they made this decision arbitrarily. The fact is, excellent schools and excellent teachers find ways to overcome the effects of seemingly impossible situations. It comes down to whether the school has the will and the courage to do the things that they know are necessary to make a difference.
Any public school teacher who blames their school’s problems on “one or two minority groups” needs to think a little deeper about what this country has set out to accomplish. We all know there are a lot of negative things going on in this country. The children in our classrooms are a reflection of society at large. But where do we begin to break the cycles of ignorance and poverty? Is it too much to ask that every child who spends a year in a classroom be able to demonstrate that he or she has achieved minimum competency on a given set of instructional standards? I don’t think so.