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that’s disgraceful! so unfair to the poor kids, and the teachers and schools. What happens to schools in disadvantaged areas, where kids often can’t focus on school work, aren’t supported at home etc (parents working too hard to ‘put food on their families’)? surely the best thing to do is to give more funding and support to the schools that lagging behind?
I live in Ireland, where education is much better - I currently have my kids in an ‘educate together’ school, which has a multi denominational ethos and a multicultural policy. it’s motto is about celebrating difference about ‘no child left behind’ - ie no child left behind due to social, relicious or cultural differences.

I sincerely hope there is a huge re-think of this with the next US administration, so that kids are being taught more than just ‘literacy so they can pass a literacy test’ (full bush quote - we need to teach our kids literacy so they can pass a literacy test’)