Teaching

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Griff

The thing about CC is that at the level I taught it was not developmentally appropriate. <snip>
I see increased anxiety and parents trying to decide if opting out will prevent their child from graduating and going to college.
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The main one for me is this, "Are the civil rights of children with special needs being violated?"

Griff, I don't think I'm in major disagreement with you,
but there does seem to be a lot of "anxiety" over CC.
Change of any sort is a magnificent generator of anxiety,
so I feel it takes support and leadership from the teachers
for any improvement (aka "change") in the system.

Let me first ask you to expand on two of your remarks in the OP...

a) 7% of students with IEPs passed the CC math for 3-5 grades.
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b) Are the civil rights of children with special needs being violated?

Aren't students with IEP's generally those students many laymen would refer
to as "Developmentally Disabled" or "Special Ed" or other such terms de jour.
If so, is it the number (7%) that concerns you, i.e., the expectation that
this number should be higher / lower / or is completely irrelevant ?

And, how do you feel the children's civil rights are being violated by having "national standards",
or is it the testing that is the problem, or is it the use/misuse of any such number as in (a) above ?