Hey, you gotta have a sense of humor, or this would make us all crazy!
No Child Left Behind: The Football Version
1. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all must win the championship.If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions will be made for interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities.
ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.
3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.
4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in 4th, 8th and 11th games.
5. This will create a New Age of sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimal goals.
If no child gets ahead, then no child will be left behind.
Full Version: No Child Left Behind
January 12, 2005
Some Things Never Die
W came out to the Washington suburbs today to use one of our high schools as window dressing for the announcement* of his plans to extend the perpetual testing of No Child Left Behind to secondary students. There will be plenty to say about his proposals later, but the best immediate take on this particular photo op comes from EduWonk.
[W]ith all the money the Bush team is investing in public relations you’d think someone would’ve told them that it’s a bad idea to have the event at a school named for a dead Confederate. Seems like an avoidable case of what the pros call "bad optics" and a good way to muddle the message especially because there has been controversy about this school’s name and Confederate names on schools in general (pun, of course, intended…).
Virginia loves to honor Confederate leaders with schools. We have at least a dozen named for Stonewall Jackson, including one just a few miles west of W’s propaganda show today, and more than a few for Jefferson Davis.
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*I FOUND THIS ON http://www.assortedstuff.com
Some Things Never Die
W came out to the Washington suburbs today to use one of our high schools as window dressing for the announcement* of his plans to extend the perpetual testing of No Child Left Behind to secondary students. There will be plenty to say about his proposals later, but the best immediate take on this particular photo op comes from EduWonk.
[W]ith all the money the Bush team is investing in public relations you’d think someone would’ve told them that it’s a bad idea to have the event at a school named for a dead Confederate. Seems like an avoidable case of what the pros call "bad optics" and a good way to muddle the message especially because there has been controversy about this school’s name and Confederate names on schools in general (pun, of course, intended…).
Virginia loves to honor Confederate leaders with schools. We have at least a dozen named for Stonewall Jackson, including one just a few miles west of W’s propaganda show today, and more than a few for Jefferson Davis.
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*I FOUND THIS ON http://www.assortedstuff.com
QUOTE(kindergarten teacher @ Feb 1 2005, 06:13 PM)
January 12, 2005
Some Things Never Die
W came out to the Washington suburbs today to use one of our high schools as window dressing for the announcement* of his plans to extend the perpetual testing of No Child Left Behind to secondary students. There will be plenty to say about his proposals later, but the best immediate take on this particular photo op comes from EduWonk.
[W]ith all the money the Bush team is investing in public relations you’d think someone would’ve told them that it’s a bad idea to have the event at a school named for a dead Confederate. Seems like an avoidable case of what the pros call "bad optics" and a good way to muddle the message especially because there has been controversy about this school’s name and Confederate names on schools in general (pun, of course, intended…).
Virginia loves to honor Confederate leaders with schools. We have at least a dozen named for Stonewall Jackson, including one just a few miles west of W’s propaganda show today, and more than a few for Jefferson Davis.
*****************************************
*I FOUND THIS ON http://www.assortedstuff.com
Some Things Never Die
W came out to the Washington suburbs today to use one of our high schools as window dressing for the announcement* of his plans to extend the perpetual testing of No Child Left Behind to secondary students. There will be plenty to say about his proposals later, but the best immediate take on this particular photo op comes from EduWonk.
[W]ith all the money the Bush team is investing in public relations you’d think someone would’ve told them that it’s a bad idea to have the event at a school named for a dead Confederate. Seems like an avoidable case of what the pros call "bad optics" and a good way to muddle the message especially because there has been controversy about this school’s name and Confederate names on schools in general (pun, of course, intended…).
Virginia loves to honor Confederate leaders with schools. We have at least a dozen named for Stonewall Jackson, including one just a few miles west of W’s propaganda show today, and more than a few for Jefferson Davis.
*****************************************
*I FOUND THIS ON http://www.assortedstuff.com
Texas already tests secondary students. We have tests for special ed students, the SDAA, tests for Limited English and Bilingual students, the RPTE, and, of course the TAKS, from grade 3 up, with exit level tests in most subjects, which you have to pass to get out of high school. We have a test for everybody but dumbya, and I'd like to give him one! He flunks!
I hear ya about "we already do all kinds of testing"! We test for everything here too and our standards were actually higher than NCLB in CA. So Bush did nothing new. His "Reading First" Program with the training I attended in early December for a week.....(the 40 hours and the other 80 I have to do outside of class by May) was/is all based on Education Research which we all had gotten in previous staff development training which is mandated by the state. So I understandl what you are saying. He just doesn't get it why children are doing the way they are in these underperforming school neighborhood communities. We are trying to educate the parents. It has been going on year after year.
It isn't the teachers.
It isn't the teachers.
Evelyn and KT you are right ! Here in Florida, Jeb has tied up our schools with a program called FCAT which is modeled after what W did in Texas. It's a mess and the teachers hate it ! Then they got saddled with NCLB which they all think is just ridiculous.
I love the football analogy- it shows how stupid all these "every child is the same" programs are.
I love the football analogy- it shows how stupid all these "every child is the same" programs are.
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