[bookshare-discuss] Re: [fun-and-laughter] No Child Left Behind
- From: "shannon" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:40:51 -0500
I am laughing my a.... off!!!
that was great. I am forwarding this to all I know!
Shannon
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From: "Diane Kelker" <dkelker1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "bksd" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:16 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] [fun-and-laughter] No Child Left Behind
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> From: "Arthur Nolden" <metaphysician@xxxxxx
> Subject: [fun-and-laughter] No Child Left Behind
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:40:23 -0400
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> No Child Left Behind:
>
> No Child Left Behind - In Massachusetts
> Reacting to Federal Guidelines, the state of Massachusetts, which has
been
> highlighted as a role model for student testing by the two U.S. Senators
> from this State, released the following memo:
> In response to the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, students will have
to
> pass it to be promoted to the next grade level. In the hopes that it will
> be uniformly adopted by all the states, thus illuminating Massachusetts to
> a glorious front runner position in education, it will be called: the
> Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test (FART).
> All students who cannot pass a FART in the second grade will be retested
> in grades 3-5 until such a time as they are capable of achieving a FART
> score of 80%. If a student does not successfully FART by grade 5, that
> student shall be placed in a separate English program, the Special
> Massachusetts Elective for Learning Language (SMELL).
> If with this increased SMELL program the student cannot pass the required
> FART, he or she can graduate to middle school by taking a one-semester
> course in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation (CRAP).
> If by age fourteen the student cannot FART, SMELL or CRAP, he or she will
> earn a promotion in an intensive one-week seminar. This is the
Preparatory
> Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students (PRUNES).
> It is the opinion of the Massachusetts Department of Public Instruction
> that an intensive week of PRUNES will enable any student to FART, SMELL or
> CRAP.
> U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry stated that this revised
> provision of the student-testing program should help clear the air.
>
>
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