Comments on: No Child Left Behind And Minority Students http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/ Tue, 22 May 2012 00:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: HispanicPundit http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-70478 HispanicPundit Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:32:49 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-70478 So what would you prefer, just bumping them to the next grade? So what would you prefer, just bumping them to the next grade?

]]> By: Juana P. Alzaga http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-70474 Juana P. Alzaga Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:08:46 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-70474 I recently administered the Iowa Test (ITBS) to Hispanics students that have been here for less than one year. I was overwhelmed and frustrated when I saw this intelligent and capable kids being forced to take a test that they could not even understand the directions. I am mad as hell with the No Child Left Behind Act, where they put all of our children in a nice neat box, not being aware of the demographics of each school and school district. As an educator for 20 years, we are in a state of panic and intimidation. Our Hispanics students are expected to pass and perform after a year same as their white/middle class counterpart. This is a racist and decriminatory measure. It has been proven by research that it takes 5-6 years to have command of a language, let alone pass a standarized test after a year of being in the U.S. And yet these students are placed in this horrific situation. I saw tears, sickness and faint spells during the test. I have never been so mad in my teaching career and I want to get involved in whatever I can to suit the Federal Government for the waist of my tax dollars in this discriminatory practices. If I would have listened to my guidance counselor and her predictions on a university career based on a standarized test score, I would have never been the master teacher that I am today I recently administered the Iowa Test (ITBS) to Hispanics students that have been here for less than one year. I was overwhelmed and frustrated when I saw this intelligent and capable kids being forced to take a test that they could not even understand the directions. I am mad as hell with the No Child Left Behind Act, where they put all of our children in a nice neat box, not being aware of the demographics of each school and school district. As an educator for 20 years, we are in a state of panic and intimidation. Our Hispanics students are expected to pass and perform after a year same as their white/middle class counterpart. This is a racist and decriminatory measure. It has been proven by research that it takes 5-6 years to have command of a language, let alone pass a standarized test after a year of being in the U.S. And yet these students are placed in this horrific situation. I saw tears, sickness and faint spells during the test. I have never been so mad in my teaching career and I want to get involved in whatever I can to suit the Federal Government for the waist of my tax dollars in this discriminatory practices. If I would have listened to my guidance counselor and her predictions on a university career based on a standarized test score, I would have never been the master teacher that I am today

]]> By: HispanicPundit http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52681 HispanicPundit Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:47:29 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52681 Oh yeah, and for the record, while I support higher standards, I am also no <i>big fan</i> of the NCLB. Unless we attack the core problems of our public school system, the monopolized uncompetitive structure, anything else will only cause minor movements in the quality of education. Oh yeah, and for the record, while I support higher standards, I am also no big fan of the NCLB.

Unless we attack the core problems of our public school system, the monopolized uncompetitive structure, anything else will only cause minor movements in the quality of education.

]]> By: HispanicPundit http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52675 HispanicPundit Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:10:25 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52675 I do, I hate government <i>spending</i> that amounts to waste, but I don't hate government <i>standards</i>. The NCLB is fundamentally higher <i>standards</i>, that is the essence of it, the heart of the bill. All of that extra spending is a negative, and I am against it, but it's a negative <i>secondary</i> to the fundamental part of NCLB, the higher standards. So when I support NCLB, I support primarily the higher standards, and nothing else. As far as the energy bill and so forth, there was no essence to it, it was almost all pork, pork to corporations, and pork to localities. I do, I hate government spending that amounts to waste, but I don’t hate government standards.

The NCLB is fundamentally higher standards, that is the essence of it, the heart of the bill. All of that extra spending is a negative, and I am against it, but it’s a negative secondary to the fundamental part of NCLB, the higher standards.

So when I support NCLB, I support primarily the higher standards, and nothing else.

As far as the energy bill and so forth, there was no essence to it, it was almost all pork, pork to corporations, and pork to localities.

]]> By: HispaniCon http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52668 HispaniCon Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:23:08 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2005/08/15/no-child-left-behind-and-minority-students/#comment-52668 HP: I sense an inconsistency here. I thought you didn't like these big bills coming out of Congress that mandate huge amounts of spending. I seem to remember you being critical of the farm bill, the energy bill and the transportation bill for all the taxpayer money that was being spent at a time of huge deficits (I don't remember what you had to say about the Medicare Prescription law). How is the NCLB law different? Wouldn't a principled economic conservative be opposed to all these hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on government programs? HP: I sense an inconsistency here. I thought you didn’t like these big bills coming out of Congress that mandate huge amounts of spending. I seem to remember you being critical of the farm bill, the energy bill and the transportation bill for all the taxpayer money that was being spent at a time of huge deficits (I don’t remember what you had to say about the Medicare Prescription law). How is the NCLB law different? Wouldn’t a principled economic conservative be opposed to all these hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on government programs?

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