A lot of IEPs and SpEd programs put kids in below-level classes or modified the standards to focus on what the kids could do and needed to do.
This was a good thing for a lot of developmentally disabled kids.
But immediately administrators and parents, both greedy and grasping, decided that they'd put kids on modified programs for their own purposes. To avoid stressing the kids. To avoid stressing the administrators. So modified tests are biting the dust and modified curricula are, too.
Every useful tool that can be found can also be abused. And when it's abused, it's taken away. You think the parents and administrators would learn to stop abusing their tools, but since they're all short-term thinkers it's a "tragedy of the commons". ("I want to get my kid to graduate ... he has 3 years"; "I want to get that promotion, but that won't happen for two years"
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