[GailA]

Gov taxquist wants over $11M for a "catch up" for 7th & 8th graders..so they won't fail the new "gateway test". A waste of money as most of these dumbed down skulls full of mush can't even pass the dumbed down 8th grade TCAP.

[summer]

You have a good point, Gail. Middle school is really not the place to teach reading, and students need to learn to read in elementary school. By middle school, they are often too frustrated, and just waiting to drop out of school.