No Child Left Behind Act

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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 it 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 Dept. 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 program should help clear the air.