Recommendation
AA-MAS was tried for a short time and failed. Education reform takes years to troubleshoot the problems out, and four years of implementation just isn’t long enough. While some teachers and schools used this as a way to get around lazy teaching, I feel there is a way to implement a similar strategy with less loopholes. It’s troubling enough that all students are held to the same standard, when all students have different strengths and weakness. But it is more troubling that students with learning disabilities, despite their efforts, fail repeatedly on state standardized testing.
Modified assessment standards should still be available to students, but the guidelines for who qualifies and what steps have to be taken before should be more clearly outlined. The first
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But it still shocked me how disinterested in her own child’s education the mother consistently was. On a polar opposite account, I got a note one time from a behavior student in a math support class that said “Thank you for telling me I can do it. You and my mom are the only ones who tell me that.” *spelling errors omitted. Two opposite situations as far as parental involvement, but two similar cases when it comes to children needing support. I realized that as an educator I can’t make the demons go away, but I can create a safe place where they can’t reach. I know that parents won’t always care how their student is doing, but they need to know how it feels to have someone care. I know that parents may want to help but don’t know how, and it can even be taken a step further to say that they’re too embarrassed to seek help when they themselves don’t have an education. Some kids will genuinely try, and some kids will think they’re legitimately “too cool for school” but at the end of the day I know that my job as an educator will be to advocate for those who can’t, inform those who aren’t, and encourage those who are