Maybe if they didn't keep kids under a CEILING and limit them to one year ahead, they could get the scores they are looking for.
Please someone tell me what to say to these people, I will memorize it and say it. Otherwise who knows what profanities will come out of my mouth.
Seriously. I find all of this disturbing. Particularly that teacher's lounge link you posted! I had no idea this was a common practice/strategy to have a ceiling. I guess this is why my DS's school is trying to get away with not testing DS. He isn't even that high but he tested one year ahead already at the beginning of the year so I guess they were hoping to just leave him there b/c where would he go if they ceiling him at a year ahead? No wonder the kid is bored. And then she (teacher) has the audacity to try to make me a part of this by punishing DS for me providing him books at his interest and ability level. Imagine if we all (home and school) just left him at that level? Same with math. Last year his teacher insisted he should just stay his level. I finally got the picture and got enough and got him some outside help and he is so happy and surging ahead no problem. My DH has been grumbling "why do we have to pay people to teach DS? Why can't the school do it?" I said because their goal is not to teach him, it is to get him at a certain level. he's at the level so they just stop teaching him. That's their philosophy. Hopefully DH will start speaking up about it now.
