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A”no”ther Child Left Behind

Growing up in a small college town in New York, I was fortunate enough to attend public schools where being different was the norm. Students who would be classified today as “Asperger’s” or on the “Autism Spectrum” were often the class leaders, well respected by their peers, teachers, and administrators. We weren’t labeled. We were the daughters and sons of cashiers, college professors, nurses, and police officers, and we were individuals.

We were given two options for high school.  We either took academic “college” prep courses or attended a vocational high school, not because someone decided that this was where we belonged but because this was where we chose to be. In retrospect this was our strength. Both paths were held in esteem. As students we knew where we were going. We knew what we wanted and we felt we had a valuable contribution to make to society. If geometry wasn’t our forte, auto shop might be just the ticket. Some of us wanted to go to Ivy League colleges and some of us planned to work in the local businesses. Both were respectable options. The world held a place for each of us and we valued each other’s right to make that decision.

As early as kindergarten we were given choices. We spent our time “playing”. We learned how to problem solve and how to work with others. We could build with blocks, play in the housekeeping corner, and run trucks through the sand box. We were allowed to live, to experiment, to laugh, and to learn.

In elementary school we were taught how to read, solve equations, and play an instrument.  On Thursdays we square-danced, we had a gym teacher, a French teacher, an art teacher…I would wake in the morning wondering what magic that day had in store.

In junior high we could take industrial arts, choir, home economics, and basketball; we learned all subjects and we thrived. If we thought slightly “outside the box” there were chess clubs, groups for stamp collectors, and scouts. For every one of us there was an activity. There was a friend and a teacher who believed in us, showed us that we belonged, not because we were just like everyone else but because we were distinct from one another! There was nothing at all unusual about wanting to build a radio or about running home to examine a slide under a microscope. We shared each other’s world; we felt valued. We knew simply because we were “different” that we were indeed special, that the world held an exceptional spot just for us.

I went into teaching precisely because I wanted to share the joy of my early educational experiences with my students. I wanted to teach my students that they were also unique, that they had a special gift, that by nurturing their interests they too could make a difference in the world…and for a long time I was able to do this.

My first teaching job was in rural Texas. We were on the forefront of the computer age. Every student had his or her own computer. The cows would graze outside the cafeteria at lunch time. We produced plays in the gymnasium. All students were allowed to be special and I watched the children flourish.

Then almost imperceptibly the system began to change. Gradually it was becoming less special to be “special”; thinking outside the box was something to hide in a box. Working in the general education classroom posed more and more limitations. Process was shifting to product and students and teachers were now under the microscope.

When “No Child Left Behind” was signed into public law in 2002, I had already moved from the “regular” classroom in California, and was teaching a “special day class”. Without fully understanding what was happening, I was already beginning to feel the squeeze. By working with students in special education, I was given the freedom to continue to work individually with my students. Their Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) made allowances that were becoming less popular in the regular education classroom. If we began our day by rolling out play-dough, marching around the classroom, or waving a brightly colored parachute on the playground and no one noticed or, if they did, they turned their head the other way.

At first the standardized “tests” mandated by law were something we could opt out of. If the team felt the assessments were inappropriate we didn’t test. Gradually the regulations changed, we could modify, but we had to assess. We needed to show progress toward goals. Our students on IEP’s were tested even when it wasn’t appropriate. General education teachers who had always been happy to include our students for a part of the day were no longer quite so willing. Their days were focused on test-prep. The hands-on activities that made it possible to include our students were set aside. There wasn’t time to paint a mural when the dates for state-wide exams were already clearly established on our annual calendar.

Tension in the staffroom rose. Tension in the classroom rose. Children no longer wanted to come to school. Parents were wondering why their “gifted” children were suddenly struggling in Math.

Before the year began we were on pace for exams. During staff meetings we reviewed scores from the previous year in order to determine how we could perform at an ever higher level, not for the sake of our students, but for the sake of our district, the annual report, and our funding. The days when we brainstormed about how we could reach our students, enrich our curriculum, and work to develop strategies for inclusion were gone.

Somewhere, in the midst of it all, we lost our focus. School was no longer about the children. School was about performing. If our youth tested well then we were doing our job. The focus shifted away from our children onto our teachers, our administrators, and our districts.

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As a society we look at the data. It seems that we’ve lost sight of our greatest resource; somewhere we have stopped seeing our children. High school drop-out and teen pregnancy rates are sky-rocketing. The unemployment and incarceration statistics are at a staggeringly high level, and why?

We hear that the latest blueprint designed for the “No Child Left Behind Act” will allow lawmakers to make revisions based on the education reauthorization process.  With the year 2014 just around the corner, it is clear that we are not going to achieve the math and reading proficiency levels established back in 2002.  While the name of the “No Child Left Behind Act” will change, the focus will continue to be on the collective assumption that our students will be career and college ready. The focus will remain on reading and math skills while many other subjects are likely to fall by the wayside.

With corresponding budget cuts and a shift away from valuing the electives and vocational courses that once gave substance to education, our children are being left behind at an alarming rate. We know that not all of our children need or even want to go to college. Machine shops are shutting down, electronic production is being outsourced, the automotive industry is being crippled by foreign manufacturing and we wonder why?

Where are the trades that provided countless jobs for young minds, minds that were not designed to score proficient on a multiple choice test. Have we forgotten that brains aren’t designed to be standardized?

How many of my students with Asperger’s have scored below basic on their annual exam simply because they wouldn’t read the questions, not because they couldn’t, but because the test was “stupid”, “boring”, and “a waste of time”.

And I couldn’t disagree. I had to ask, are we sending our children to school because we want the teachers to perform or are we sending our children to school because we want them to learn? Maybe we need to stop asking what’s wrong with our teachers and what’s wrong with our children; maybe we need to start asking, what’s wrong with the system?

It’s a fact that if our children are invested in what they are learning they will learn. If they are taught to be proficient test takers some of them will learn to take tests. Is this what we want?

In attempting not to leave our children behind we are crippling our greatest resource; we are teaching our children that they are inadequate, that they are not measuring up, and that they don’t have a place in the world.

Could it be that as a society we are not measuring up? Isn’t it time to take a long hard look at our priorities? Every single one of our children came into this world with a unique mission. If he or she happens to have Autism, Asperger’s, or any number of “special” labels, it’s not our job to tell them what to learn, how to learn it, and when to have it mastered. It is our job as teachers, parents, administrators, and politicians to listen and learn from each individual. When we really understand who our children are and what they need then we can begin to teach.

Our children are not smudges on a blackboard, yet we have all but erased their names for the sake of standards.  If our youth can’t measure up to a level mandated by politicians, maybe it’s time to stop pointing fingers, blacklisting schools, and begin putting substance back into the curriculum.

Certainly we need to hold our schools accountable, but wouldn’t it be more appropriate to measure results by the success of our students? Isn’t it our responsibility to assist students and make it possible for them to graduate high school equipped to be productive citizens ready and willing to take on the challenges of the world?

If we could accept our children for who they are, if we could prepare them for life by instilling a passion for a trade or the love of a profession that matches their unique interests then maybe, just maybe, we won’t leave any of our very special children behind!

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