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	Name:	jawjagal -
	Subject:	OK - BamaBob
	Date:	8/12/2006 4:37:08 PM

As many of you may think, when federal governmental legislators with no background in an area ( in this case - education) makes policy, I just want to puke.

Want to know what we are doing in schools?

Teaching to the test. That's right. Critical thinking, problem solving, and independence have gone OUT the window.

The tests required by the government are multiple choice, teaching objectives only, and because there are so any objectives to cover, the teachers cannot stay on one area too long. The curriculum is not wide, but deep....and they've got to cover so much in a shortened period of time.

End of year course tests are scan-tronned taken (like SATs when you fill in the blanks of those pink standard papers) and graded ( a machine) and toward the end of many courses, pushed in a hurry down kids' throats if there has not been enough time to introduce - much less master - the objectives before the test.

Hands on learning - like science labs - are just skimming the top (why do you think we lag behind in science skills and scores?)

But this is public school. Public schools are funded in part by the federal government. "Meet our demands - as a whole - and you will get our money."

Teachers have to be on the same page at all times....and I think this was for POOR teachers...so they can "keep up" but it drags down the good/creative teacher because these teachers, too, have so much material to cover and can't elaborate as well as they once could.

It sucks, big time. The federal government mandates how many times teachers have to meet with parents, each other, how they spend their time, must answer all kinds of questions involving annual yearly progress questions, and if they don't pass these mandates, then the government puts them on the "endangered" list. And when you hear of schools not meeting Annual Yearly Progress...let me tell you it can be for the mundane (don't want to offend anyone here with my example) reason such as: the special needs group did not meet attendance requirements. Then the whole school is put out to be thrashed and humiliated, when it could be ONE subgroup that didn't meet ONE criteria.

Now, I am all for raising the bar...but I think it should be done by local and state agencies...not a federal one. School systems know their demographics, their students' needs....and the federal governement should stay out of it.

They've made it a business....not a learning enviroment.

Bush is an idiot.