The revolt of the PTA ladies
"There are children with severe learning disabilities who are never going to be "proficient" unless you define proficient in the narrowest terms imaginable, in which case you have the problem of schools focusing all their attention on the children they need to get to that level, while letting the children who are already there rot.

Take it from a mother who watched when her kid's school district set "high" standards for spelling, at which point her son's weekly third grade spelling list went from having words like "scientific" (from a teacher who gave individualized spelling lists made up of words kids consistently had trouble with), to words like "this" and "fun."

I don't want every child to reach the same standard. I want every child to get the chance to do the best he or she is capable of doing."
�Body and Soul 10.13.03
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