Reply #4: I was lucky enough to have the very first NCLB test [View All]

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my senior year of high school. We all purposely blew it off and our school got a shitty score. Since our school had never had bad scores on ANY tests before, the state just kind of fudge the numbers and slid it under the rug.. One of the benefits in being in an upper-middle class (and ~98% white) school. My school also had all of the mentally handicapped students in a 3 county area, and they didn't have to take it because there it was pointless. The Special Education Co-op that ran the mentally handicap classes refused to administer. My district got most of its money from property taxes (and very very littel fed funding aside from the food program) so they pretty much told the feds to go suck it. And this turned into a rant.. oh well.. anyway, NCLB is worthless because the students don't care. And the teachers hate it and it makes kids stupid. so yeah.