"The morning of Sept. 30, 2009, half a dozen such students — Chantel
Cox among them — showed up in Milton Mack’s classroom at Carver. None
was assigned to Mack’s special education classes. All, Mack would later
tell investigators assigned to an internal inquiry by the school
district, said they had been pulled out of their 11th-grade homerooms
while their peers took the high school writing test.
“The students were upset and trying to walk out,” Mack told
investigators. “They said they were told they weren’t juniors [but] they
were told by somebody that they were juniors until that morning.”
Shortly, according to Mack’s account, principal Rodney Ray arrived to
try to calm the students. Ray didn’t say so, but Mack told
investigators he assumed the principal had pulled out the students so
they wouldn’t hurt the school’s overall test score."
This article really makes me think about some thing that I have seen in my suburb of Atlanta. I have seen students who were previously moderately successful, suddenly feel unwanted in the classroom. I have seen special ed students suddenly mainstreamed at Grade 9 and promptly flunked. the goal, I can only guess was to encourage dropping out. I know of several people homeschooling right now, not because they wanted to, but because they felt they had no other choice... the schools were not interested in helping them.
Read more here http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-atlanta/atlanta-parents-may-want-to-consider-homeschooling
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2 comments:
THEN these same students are not going to do as well and "homeschooling" will look bad. This is infuriating.
The schools already suggest homeschooling to many of these students. Why do you think they offer online classes? It is better for the parents to go ahead and take charge while they can an give the kids on a head-start on improving their plight.
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