While I can see the benefit of the VGLA for certain students - I have to give it to some children who in some cases, have multiple disabilities and IQs of less than 60...and the expectation is that they pass. When the books come back without a passing grade, because there is an assumption that this is a "slam dunk process", I feel its placed in terms of my failure vs my students inability to do the work.
I'm really tired this year, and am rethinking my career options - I had 34 of these things to do crossing 3 grade levels, 8 different subjects, grades 6-8. Didn't even have a planning period the first six weeks - complaints were answered with "you have an aide" or "it all spirals"
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6th grade math is NOT 7th grade math and the amount of "spiral" is not even worth talking about.
We got a new assistant principal from Richmond, she had done the VGLA last year and presented herself as some sort of "expert" on the process. We have another "expert" here now. It's amazing how many "experts" there are on a program that is 2 years old.