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" As a parent of a special ed kiddo, I have to tell all of you that he tries harder than most other children his age and he is pretty good. But he has difficulty keeping the pace and he isn't a "dunce" either. Does Unit 5 dumb it down for him. I don't think so. Instead, they give him fewer "problems" to solve. But the academics are the same. Most Parents feel Unit 5 refuses to get a Director of Special Ed who wants to do the right thing. He tries to bully parents into a program for their child that is not challenging. This evolves into a child that doesn't succeed at the secondary level. I wouldn't blame the teachers. My experience always points to the administrators for their failure to put the money into the programs that work instead of into their personal hidden agendas. "

" I have had kids in the Unit Five system for the past 16 years and I've experienced DOZENS and DOZENS of bad teachers backed up by a BAD system. It's kind of like politicians - you can go into politics being honest and wanting to do a good job, but you don't stay that way long if you want to stay in the system. That's what Unit Five does - good teachers are ignored, while bad teachers are given Union protection from being fired or being made to look bad. The entire system is entirely corrupt, inept, inefficient and downright harmful to students who want to learn the most that they can. Kids are wasted and used as pawns in the Unit Five's political games. "

" When is the last time you had a child in U5 schools???? U5 is filled with outstanding teachers who push children to put forth 100% effort each & every day. I am sorry if you experienced one of the few who make the rest of educators look bad. "

" All the core subjects are taught - children are in school 7 hours a day - students need PE so they are healthy & fit- art & music make them well rounded - that is called culture "

" Hillaryland - you took the play book right out of Unit Five's hands.....for years they've been dumbing down the system - group projects, group grades, group participation. That's how they pass the stupid and behavior kids who don't want to learn and the teachers don't want to bother teaching. There will always be one over-acheiver strategically placed in each classroom group to carry the grades of all the others. Get to high school, the worst teachers are given the gifted students in order to make them look good. If Unit Five set their standards any lower, we'd all have to be digging trenches. "

" ummm...yeah...that was outlawed back in 1954 w/ Brown v. Board of Education Topeka KS... "

" fund "assistance" to the kids who have a problem performing at school by assigning an asian "buddy" who can perform on behalf of the dunce, while the dunce sharpens his skills at rap during recess. "

" The answer is : we should dumb down the subjects to the level of the lowest achievers so the scores will go up and EVERYONE can be a winner. "

" If you want our schools to be better start teaching them reading,writing,math,english, science and p.e. .Stop music,art and and sports.Have the kids at school for at least 7 hours a day.If they do not want to be there put them in some kind of trade school.Not everyone belongs in a college.Stop letting the parents run the schools until they get the education for it. "

" Does the Achievement Gap Task Force have an low-income minorities actually participating on it? Or is just a group of people who claim to represent low-income minorities. "

" Then we need to deal with those 2 groups. First those with disabilities should not be compared with most of the others and the blacks need some parental involvement and the question needs to be raised as to whether they want to meet standards. Unpopular maybe but you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. You can make a child go to school but you can't make him learn. If they truly don't want to learn then put them into an alternative situation so they are not causing harm to the children who do want to learn. That is what happens more often than you know. Also when you do this I imagine our schools will become much safer. Have you ever heard of a child who wants to get ahead and learn and wants to do mischief at the same time? That usually isn't the case. "