You NEED to watch this video song about "No Child Left Behind."

[rateyes]

http://www.notonthetest.com/

Give me your thoughts. I love it.

[truedelphi]

1. Nice, upbeat song about a reality that is rather

snarky - logic and thinking "are not on the test"

There is a reason that most people can no longer think themselves out of a box.

[rateyes]

2. That's the honest truth. nt

[rateyes]

6. I followed your PM advice. Hope it works.

Thanks. :hi:

[DaLittle Kitty]

18. KICKED AND RECOMMENDED!

:)

[rateyes]

3. Thanks for the recs everyone...

I hope you all will listen and rec it up. :hi:

[rateyes]

4. You can download the song for free.

Quality work, too.

[rateyes]

5. Thanks to whomever gave recs 1-4....can I get a 5?

[Mira]

7. There you go !

off with you

[rateyes]

9. Thanks, Mira.

:hi:

Hope you liked the music video.

[Mira]

10. Yes, I like it a lot, a well done illustration of an enraging fact about why our

children are so narrowly educated, and why they are not filled with a hunger to learn. Well done, and happily recommended.

[rateyes]

8. Yay....thanks all you thread reccers.

:hi: :D

[screembloodymurder]

11. Yup.

So true.

[graywarrior]

12. Kick!

Love it!

[rateyes]

22. Thanks, friend.

:hi:

[CoffeeCat]

13. happily K&R

lovely song...great job!

:)

[yoyossarian]

14. Neat!

Good singing, excellent lyrics, great ideas... what a shame, how little we've put behind edumacation in this dumbed-down jackass society for the last 30 years or so... especially the last eight...


Hopefully, this will change for the better soon...
Thanks for the link! Kickin' it!

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[acmavm]

15. K&R!

Very nice.

[callous taoboy]

16. This third grade teacher loved it! I had a heart-breaking call to a mom

yesterday. Her child passed the reading test, but during the weeks leading up to it she was not doing well on practice reading tests nor in other areas and her grades were dropping, so the mom wanted a conference. This girl has been a good student with a supportive home-life, but her mom explained that during the weeks prior to the test she was getting very stressed out, not sleeping well, getting frequent headaches, having emotional outbursts at home screaming that she was "going to fail that test!" and "I'm stupid and can't do anything right!" My stomach dropped out from under me hearing all of this. This is a really sweet, smart kid who had already witnessed a lot of trauma at home during her early years (things have been very stable for her for some time now). Her mom said that her daughter had always loved books and reading right up until the weeks prior to the test. I did emphasize often during class that the test is important, that they (the students) had to try their best. I wasn't an ogre about it, but the message was clear that failure wasn't an option, that they all had the potential to not just pass, but to do very well.

So to all of the people on this board that were all fired up about merit pay, this is what kids would continue to have to go through in order for the state to determine my worth. Does it still seem like a good idea to you?

[rateyes]

17. Yeah. I substitute in the school system sometimes...

I hear this test stuff all the time...class...intercom from the principal, yada, yada, yada...

I don't push it at home with my middle-schooler...didn't push it with my two who are in college, and both of them graduated as valedictorians. They studied and learned for the sake of learning and were encouraged to explore their own interests, and develop their own talents whether or not it matched up with some criterion-referenced judgment of someone else.

We (society, that is) are trying to raise cookie-cutter children, and that sux.

[truedelphi]

19. What an awful thing for a kid to experience.

Some people are brilliant at tests (I was one of those) and some are awful. It is always a shame when the system goes overboard with testing. And offers no way for anyone to compensate for their internal defects.

My mom grew up in a very small town in the nineteen thirties. She is as smart as a whip -as long as you tell her something. If she has to read the directions, she's lost. (She's a good reader, just for whatever reason cannot do written directions.)

She was convinced for years that she was stupid. I balanced the checkbook by the time I was eight, as she believed she couldn't.

One day some one explained to her that she was not stupid - she had a "cognitive deficiency." They helped her figure out what she needed to do to get around her deficiency. My mom's confidence blossomed and at the age of 67 she opened her own nail salon with a girlfriend of hers, a girlfriend who could handle written directions.

But think of all the years she had lost. ANd it breaks my heart knowing the same thing happens today to our school kids.

[rateyes]

23. And, much as I hate to say it, we aren't doing the best we could do

to recognize learning disabilities. One reason is that parents who are concerned don't know their rights under the IDEA law.

[acmavm]

20. Trying to keep this afloat for a while...

it's worth it.

[rateyes]

21. Thanks.

:hi:

[acmavm]

25. You're welcome (which allows another kick).

[Dinger]

24. K & R