the no child left behind law is smothering our brighter childern. They are board with unstimulating classes. many act out be cause of the confinement found in public schools which are geared for the slower learners. Why are we punishing our brighter Children? they won't place them in higher classes because they claim the children are not mature enough for the classes. HELP!!!!
2007-03-01 05:39:55 · 9 answers · asked by YZ,I-C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
I have heard that too! I've lost weeks of sleep over it, as I bet you have! My advice is go to the library every week. Get out as many books as they allow and encourage your kids to read anything and everything that they are interested in. Take them to every museum in your town, Spend time on-line WITH them to show you value their interests. Feed their desire to learn outside school. That will carry them through whatever system they are in.
I took my kids to outside testing, which I was willing to pay for, brought the results back to the public school and insisted they move them. I paid for outside tutoring and tutored at home to keep them in their advanced classes.. but not with out a cost. It was a fight all the way, sometimes they stuck them in the hall to teach themselves math since their schedule didn't fit the other 4th graders..or missed art because that was the only time that math was offered.. or other such things.
I was on the schools doorstep weekly. Finally got a job in their school, then I could keep an eye on things and got to know the teachers. My youngest daughter liked being with her friends so next year will take honors in H.S. She would bomb a test on purpose so she wouldn't "stand out" as gifted.
My son was so "nerdy" and eccentrically gifted, we had to drive him to another district school which had a self contained program of other equally "weirdly" gifted kids and my oldest I put in a small charter arts school after she failed 3 years of H.S because she didn't care and didn't want to work. We put her through two public schools, and two private schools now she is a very talented, self-supporting artist with two degrees!
Gifted ed needs to be "special ed" as it is in some states, but we do not value "smarts" in USA. There is this feeling that in America we all should have equality, and that is why we want to keep everyone on the same page. Public school will "dumb down" the smart ones unless you keep their minds active at home..unless you have a good gifted ed program
Oh, I went and got a gifted certificate too, I am a special ed teacher, so I could talk the talk. Keep pushing the school, seek out the gifted program in your district by making a few calls to see where it is housed. Good luck
2007-03-01 14:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by atheleticman_fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NCLB holds teachers accountable for their brighter children as well. We are responsible not only for making sure our students PASS the EOGs. We are also responsible for making sure they ALL show adequate growth. To ignore brighter children's needs would hurt the teacher too. While I agree that services created from NCLB cater to struggling students, I still think it holds teachers accountable for their brighter students as well. When you say "they won't place them in higher classes because they claim the children are not mature enough for the classes," who are "they" and the children of which you speak? Are you talking about a specific school with specific children, or are you making a general statement about the education system? I personally don't see this problem in my own school, and we aren't by any means exceptionally great. I wonder if this is from some sort of experience you've had personally. I'd love more details.
2007-03-01 09:57:44 · answer #2 · answered by elizabeth_ashley44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Child Left Behind is one reason I left the teaching career. You are correct. Really intelligent students are not truly motivated. In the " advanced" classes they do silly little projects centered around team work. That, of course, means four students and one does all the work. Or they make a collage... same thing they did in 3rd,4th, and 5th grades. Schools are not truly geared for slower learners, but there is need for more and more bilingual teachers . Many students who barely speak English are in the same classes as English speaking students. That teacher is fast and furiously trying to teach them all how the take that BIG standardized test in the spring. How boring for some intelligent children, who, day after day after day, have to practice test taking strategies.
2007-03-01 05:54:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has been happening for years.. WAY before the NCLB act. Teach your children yourself and watch them advance.
In my area they are creating public magnet schools all over the place becasue we are in a FEDERAL GOV. mandate to diversify. We could NOT even allow one white child to attend one school because it would tilt the diversity scale. Same with black kids, spanish etc... We had schools with open seats because of this mandate.
With magnet schools it creates higher plane of education geared for brighter students in certain areas. While other children that need help with english get what they need, etc...
It's working great... The plus is that the Fed. Gov. can not touch this...
2007-03-01 05:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Renoirs_Dream 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a dissertation i am reading of this woman named Pamlea Althea Joyce, called Beyond the silence: Finding a voice. I believe you can view it at the City University of New York. It is about the issues of teachers and urban education, and the injustice that we have been dealt by the education system. I think you should thumb through it. It's really good. It may answer your question. I am not a teacher, so i have little knowledge that may help you. That book is good though.
2007-03-01 06:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by Lovely 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to understand that the NCLB act was crafted specifically so that all schools will eventually fail. Once a school system fails, they have to offer vouchers to students. Christian school advocates could not get vouchers to pass on their own so they disguised it under NCLB. I would also urge you to let your Representative and Senators know that you do not want the act renewed in any form.
A stronger step would be to urge your school board to reject NCLB. Several school boards in the Washington DC area are considering this.
As a parent of a gifted child, I know exactly what you are talking about.
Good luck.
2007-03-01 06:02:17 · answer #6 · answered by Dave P 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 01:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by schenecker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a gifted child it is you responsibility to challenge their mind. My parents did and I graduated at 16.
2007-03-01 06:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by James W 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Were you a child that was left behind?
2007-03-01 05:43:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋