NO child left behind!

[Larsa]

I absoltly Disagree with this program the government set up and is still funding. It is an inevitable task and will never be fully acomplished. They try to have every child get the same education but really there will always be one child left behind and it effects a lot of the other children who are doing really great. Another thing that parcialy goes along with NCLB is the TAKS, KANed, the Ohio assesment and many other assesments. Every year all states have a certain test that the teachers are supposed to give at the end of the year. The problem is that the teacher will worry about this test all year long and only teach what's on it and wont go over more than whats required because they want they're school to be a "Recognized school." What are your feelings on this test. I know 99% of the pople on this site have at least one thing to say about it unless your 30 years old or older. They might have had a less serious test back then.

[The Man]

The result of No Child Left Behind is that we have a nation of people who are absolutely fantastic at taking tests and absolutely terrible at doing anything that applies to the real world. Well, that would be the effect if it were even being funded the way it was supposed to be, but since it's not being funded, we don't even have that. It's a disgrace.

The public education system needs a dramatic overhaul, but not this kind of dramatic overhaul.

[Words of Ivory]

Surely America sees the irony in this system: The better students in the school do, the more government funding the school will receieve.

What happens because of that system? Kids get kicked out of their schools because ofr low grades, shafted into ****tier schools without proper funding, and the other schools continue to get more funding because they appare to be educating students better.

How the hell is this "No Child Left Behind" system going to work if schools in America aren't even funded properly? You can't MAKE people learn either, but considering how excessively... excessive the American school system is, it's the country's own fault.

[My Final Heaven]

Actually, the reason that teachers only teach the test is two fold. One, they're over worked a lot of the time, and two, the funding system allocates more money to schools with a higher GPA, so on the one hand, the teachers don't have time to teach more than the test because they have little to no prep time, and secondly, thier job depends on the students getting high marks.

Very much like WOI just pointed out, but my Fire Fox took a crap on me when I hit enter twice... ****ing thing, should never have upgraded it...

Anyways, what WOI goes on to say is a clear example of institutional classism, where students who have families that can afford to live in upscale neighbourhoods and attend better schools with better funding have a natural advantage over the already poor, but I seriously hate american foreign policy right now, so if it all goes to hell you wont see me shed a tear. If you believe in Karma, America has had this comming since the end of world war 2, and if you don't, well then believe in ecconomics, and America's ecconomy is unsustainable and needs total revamping and retooling.

[eXo]

I don't like blowing this around, honestly, but I'm a pretty good student. Top twenty percent of my class, challenge programs for years, high ACT score, and all that stuff. But right now my school's being taught jack **** because of this program, to the point that my teachers admit that what we're learning is only useful for taking tests that determine how good we are at taking tests, and I think that's a disgrace. It's especially sad when the teachers themselves admit that all they're doing is preparing you for tests that won't do anything for your later life except get you into a good college, where you won't know anything because all your only focus was how to get there. I can certainly tell you how to find the tangent of an angle. I'm getting better at adverb clauses. I can balance chemical equations and tell you how to convert from moles to grams to formula units.

We're cutting consumer car care to make room for college algebra next year. I can't tell you where my goddamn antifreeze goes, but if I need to find the slope of the angle my car's parked on, I'm your man.

My third grade teacher helped a lot in shaping the artist that I am today, and after two years of No Child Left Behind curriculum, she quit her job. If she'd had her way, she would've been teaching until the day she collapsed dead at the foot of the chalkboard, but she said the system was too hard to teach under because she wasn't allowed to recognize the truly gifted kids in the class as long as some were falling behind.

It's a goddamn shame, it's a terrible system, and something needs to be done with it. Like Aaron said, we definitely need an overhaul of the education system in this country, but No Child Left Behind is definitely not the answer.

[Larsa]

I also want to add that the Robin Hood law is a horrible thing that the government did. They "try" once again to give all children the same education by taking away from the more fortunate districs and giving the money to the less fortunate districs.

[itcouldbesweet]

It's a pointless program just like weapon control and the war on drugs. The population is far too massive and there are some people that just aren't going to follow the script. (I.E. go to school, use drugs, own weapons illegaly)