One Size Does NOT Fit All

Mary's Final Story 2.mp4

"Then, something troubling came along.  Noise about accountability had been building for several years.  The explicit message was:  'Schools and teachers are going to be held accountable'.  Sounds reasonable enough.  We should all be accountable, right?  But the message we heard at Lawrence was 'Clearly you all don't know what you're doing, or the kids would be doing a lot better..."  In this story, Mary tells us how No Child Left Behind affected the lives of students and teachers working with her at the Lawrence Intermediate School on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation in AZ.