What a....................Day?

Today is the beginning of the FCAT......(Florida Comprehensive Assessment test) part of the mandated "No Child Left Behind Act".....a cute little ditty which actually leaves many a child behind. This is so because of the testing's very nature...First, if a child fails to reach potential by the scoring of the test....the child is automatically retained in the grade they were in prior to the test. Second, the test itself is set up for failure, there are no safeguards within the test's diameters to give a child a fair chance to pass. There are barriers that prevent a child a fair chance simply because classwork and other assesment tests should have been able to foresee a child's ability to have any sort of success with this FCAT, yet it does not or else has been diregarded, because no matter what ability level, cognitive level, ect., every child dpending on grade level only takes the same test. So a child with special needs will take the same test as a child who may be deemed a "genius". This is very worrisome to me as a mom........My 13 year old daughter, who has recieved Honors for her work on three report cards/terms, ixs in danger as most of the kids are of having that Honor deemed meaningless by these antiquated testings. Pray for the children!!!!! Pray for the public schools they are being attacked......Children are not supposed to be critical thinkers, and if a brave teacher wants to promote critical thinking,they are attacked for being disruptive and corrupting the morals of our kids..and the schools are threatened to be denied funding if it doesn't 'fire" the teacher.......this is apparently just a round about way for some in government to push for
school vouchers" instead of helping the schools, help the kids.