IronBits
07-12-2004, 10:13 AM
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, the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, students will have
to pass the test 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 testing program should help clear
the air.
:D
been highlighted as a role model for student testing by the two U.S.
Senators from this State, released the following memo:
In response, the Federal No Child Left Behind Act, students will have
to pass the test 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 testing program should help clear
the air.
:D