Post by dulce on Apr 12, 2005 9:46:28 GMT -6
No Child Left Behind Act
In response to President Bush's federal "No Child Left Behind Act"
NCLB), it is proposed that students will have to pass a test to be
promoted to the next grade level. In the hope that this proposal will
be uniformly adopted by all of the states, the new test will be called
the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test, or FART.
All students who cannot pass a FART in the second grade will be retested in Grades 3,4, and 5 until they are capable of passing 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 known as the Special Mastery
Elective for Learning Language, or SMELL. If, with this increased
SMELL program, the student cannot pass the required FART test, he or she can
still graduate to middle school by taking another one-semester course in Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation, or CRAP.
If by age fourteen the student cannot FART, SMELL, or CRAP, he or she
can earn promotion in an intensive one-week seminar known as the
Preparatory Reading for Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students, or
PRUNES.
It is the opinion of the Department of Instruction for Public Schools
(DIPS) that an intensive week of PRUNES will enable any student to
FART, SMELL, or CRAP. This revised provision of the student component
of the House Bill 101 should help "clear the air" as part of the "No
School Left Standing" Act.
Excellent post dulce.