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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 39952" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: In my 3rd year of High School... Now what?The basic problem with NCLB was that it mandated results without providing methods. Minimum competency education produced minimum competency. For every low performing student that was lifted to the standard, a handful of possibly higher achieving students was dragged down to the standards.Shit...I have been listening to the higher ups tell us for years if our students don&#039;t perform that they will restructure our schools.If they really have an answer, just tell us.New methods are usually just relabeled same old same old. Anything inventive is frowned upon because it is outside of the experience of those observing the process. Actually, while most teachers could perform well in their own field, many would have trouble performing to the standards we expect of the students in all fields. We have policy determined by those who have never been in a classroom, methods developed by those with no practical experience, and no budget to do any of it. And of course, we have never allowed any of the reforms to last long enough to see if they actually make a difference.This morning, a biology teacher told me she was forced to teach a chemistry concept incorrectly because of the way the concept was addressed on our wonderful NCLB is written.After 20 years in the classroom, I know that students that want to excel, will excel, just like in life. It is not the educational system that is broken, it is our society that doesn&#039;t value education, no matter what the latest slime spouted by either political party is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 39952, member: 24"] Re: In my 3rd year of High School... Now what? The basic problem with NCLB was that it mandated results without providing methods. Minimum competency education produced minimum competency. For every low performing student that was lifted to the standard, a handful of possibly higher achieving students was dragged down to the standards. Shit...I have been listening to the higher ups tell us for years if our students don't perform that they will restructure our schools. If they really have an answer, just tell us. New methods are usually just relabeled same old same old. Anything inventive is frowned upon because it is outside of the experience of those observing the process. Actually, while most teachers could perform well in their own field, many would have trouble performing to the standards we expect of the students in all fields. We have policy determined by those who have never been in a classroom, methods developed by those with no practical experience, and no budget to do any of it. And of course, we have never allowed any of the reforms to last long enough to see if they actually make a difference. This morning, a biology teacher told me she was forced to teach a chemistry concept incorrectly because of the way the concept was addressed on our wonderful NCLB is written. After 20 years in the classroom, I know that students that want to excel, will excel, just like in life. It is not the educational system that is broken, it is our society that doesn't value education, no matter what the latest slime spouted by either political party is. [/QUOTE]

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