[World Class?]

I have been teaching Science in the middle school for 20 years in the Charlottesville area. I have had leveled classes and heterogenous classes and have differentiated my lessons to accommodate the needs of all students. I have had ESOL students speaking as many as 11 different languages in one class and children with IQ's below 70 in the same class with gifted students. In all of my years of struggling to reach all students, I have never encountered anything as stupid as VGLA. I have 8 students who supposedly need this accommodation (but only in middle school because in high school they will take the SOL). I have never seen a VGLA notebook or received any training on how to create materials or how to collect or organize said notebooks. I graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in elementary education and did not specialize in special education. I teach a hands-on lab science in which students learn to work as a team, discover, analyze, and infer. But I've been told that I cannot collect samples of their investigations because VGLA materials have to be work they have done without assistance. What am I suppose to do - sit them alone in a corner? Putting in 11 - 12 hours a day to prepare interesting lessons for young people, purchasing the materials, preparing the lab stations, copying the handouts, teaching the background information, monitoring the lab activities, collecting and grading papers, and doing formative as well as summative assessments isn't enough for my school system. Now I have to become proficient in creating special ed. materials? (and several variations of each assessment at that because they don't show mastery). I could work 24 hours a day and not fully accomplish this task. I have graciously been assigned my very first collaborative teacher who comes into one of the 3 block periods for only half of the class. She has informed me that although she is a trained, licensed special ed. teacher, her only part in this mess is to ADVISE me not to help me modify the assignments. My county talks about delivering a "world class" education to students, but assigning the VGLA notebooks to the core classroom teachers is destroying education for all levels of students. It takes enormous amounts of time for copying and filing, and the main purpose is to meet AYP and falsely inflate the percent of student passing the SOL's by removing the lowest scoring students. My school made over 70 notebooks last year and we were the only middle school in the county to meet AYP- what does that tell you?