[ale] Going OT: Cobb Laptop Deal

[Pete Hardie]

On 8/15/05, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> I grew to hate Accelerated Reader with a passion.  It basically wrung
> all the desire out daughter had to read out of her when she was in a
> Gwinnett County school.  The books were classified crazily, with widely
> varying books put in the same classification, only a fraction of the
> books the AR instance knew about were actually available in the library,
> and, what really got our goat was that the competition between teachers
> for AR points resulted in good readers getting their backs broken by
> unethical teachers who were setting individual kids' goals.
> 
> The school staff had nothing to say about any of this; in fact, they
> told us that the only reason they had AR was because a long-gone
> librarian refused to believe that some of the kids were actually reading
> the books they said they were reading.  And, no telling how much this
> all cost, but it had to be thousands.

What ever happend to the SRA reading tool?  I remember it from my
youth, and it seemed quite easy to manage without computers.

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