AYP

With my school being in full MEAP mode it has been a long two weeks.  The kids sense the stress associated with the tests and couple that with the teacher anxiety it really is not a fun two weeks.  The information posted about AYP-Adequate yearly progress on the Edutopia website is perfectly true.  Here we strive to achieve AYP at our school and in reality we are setting ourselves up for failure.  The items that qualify a school to obtain AYP are hard and if any one of them is not met then the school does not met AYP.  Is that fair?  Is that a true representation of the progress of the school?  I am not sure if this system is correct and could need fixing in the near future.