jack rogers
2008-06-16 05:43:47
A very nice article with plenty of background research. One very large problem you neglect to discuss is parent involvement in the “labeling” process. I’ve been teaching for 15 years, and my experience says that roughly 90 percent of students who are eventually labeled procure this label because parents demand it.
I’ve had students who take all honors classes, and their parents won’t allow the district to remove them from IEPs, because the parents fear the children will lose services, which enhance their chances to score better on tests and to receive better grades.
The best thing the government can do is take parents out of the equation.
Parents, I find, are mostly what’s wrong with education in our country.
