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NCLB
By Carson
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I'm so glad that you said that comment about the parent part of NCLB. I teach 4th grade in a district where social promotion seems to be the norm. I'm fed up with everyone pointing fingers and telling me that I need to| be "highly qualified" when the majority of the kids in my class come to me each year below grade level. I consider myself a very good teacher, but I'm a teacher, not a magician. I have parents of 4th graders that are 25-26 years old themselves, kids with one parent in jail and one girl with both parents in jail (she lives with grandma) So when these kids come to 4th grade and are reading | |
on a first and second grade level, should I be held responsible? I've yet to meet some of the parents of my kids after almost two full months of school, because it's not their top priority, I have parents that sign homework assignment books when the homework was never done, just so their kids stop bugging them and I had one parent write me a note that it's not her responsibility to help her daughter with homework because she's already graduated from high school, but I'm supposed to create miracles in this one year. Alrighty!!!
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