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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

I have been reading as much as I could about CC standards, and am truly surprised at all the furor.
So far, many links, discussions, and the majority of website discussions have been about the horrors
of CC testing, evil corporations (Pearson), absence of “actual teachers” from the CC process, etc.

One exception is an argument that CC standards are inappropriate to students with IEP’s.
My first reaction was, Yes, that’s probably true.
But then in my reading, I found some links designed to assist
Special Ed teachers understand and implement CC.

A major assertion on these sites seems to be that there is no need for there to be a conflict
… that all legal standards for IEP remain in place ...
specifically including that students have access to all education curricula,
and the opportunity to learn the same skills and concepts,
at an appropriate level for each individual by incorporating
“specially designed support and accommodations”.

And, while access to grade level standards must remain available,
CC does not prevent students from working at other levels
based on individual assessments... that is, the IEP.

Here is such a link from Washington State (67-page pdf)

It does look fine from a distance. Let's look closer.

I have a kid, carrying an ASD label on my caseload, whose behavior, memory problems, and anxiety put him in that 93% of children with IEPs who will fail the assessments. He was doing okay at school in the weeks before the tests having mostly "green days". Then along came the two weeks of testing. For two weeks on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday he had a two hour blocks of testing. This is a child who would never pass these tests. He could have had extra time as an accommodation. So he sits for 2 hours a day for 6 days while the test reinforces the idea that he does not know a goddamn thing. If a parent locked a kid in a room for 2 hours a day while telling him that he's stupid and Child Protective could prove it they'd remove him from the home. He actually bit himself during the testing period. That was a behavior not seen in many months. He's had mostly "red days" in the month since the testing period but was doing better when I saw him this week.