http://seattlest.com/2009/03/06/special_ed_teachers_suspended_for_r.php All comments for Teachers Suspended For Refusal To Give WAAS en-us 2009 seattle_katelyn Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kbhackett@gmail.com kbhackett@gmail.com 60 http://seattlest.com/2009/03/06/special_ed_teachers_suspended_for_r.php#comment-1605920 http://seattlest.com/2009/03/06/special_ed_teachers_suspended_for_r.php#comment-1605920 Comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:28:13 -0800 <p>My wife is a special-ed teacher in the north-of-seattle-burbs. She has to spend an enormous amount of time (~10 hrs per student) to create the portfolio that is an alternate to special-ed kids taking the standard WASL. This is just so that a few months later she can be told that all of her kids fail the test. Gee, who would have thought that kids that can't talk, let alone read couldn't prove a mastery of Washington state history or their the ability to perform long division. I may not have the exact details of the portfolio process down, but I wanted to give you all the gist of why these teachers are resisting the testing. </p>