Reply #169: Becasue we're all standrardized

[sulphurdunn]

"So, why are the honors and SPEd student taking the same tests? For that matter, if we really know the SPEd students plateaued before the 4th grade, why are they taking high school English?"

It's an Orwellian sort of thing thing done in the name of equality. According to the reformers, every child deserves an equal opportunity to succeed. So, in essence, we compel these kids to attend school for 13 years and then throw them out the door with nothing to show for it because they failed at their impossible chance to be equal when they failed their end of course, all or nothing, high stakes standardized tests.

Now, to be fair, we do have lots of modifications for these kids when they take these test, but they fail anyway because kids who can barely comprehend a 4th grade reader are unlikely to analyze grade 11 level literary text even with accommodations.