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It would help if it was carried out the way it was intended to be. Schools are learning ways around No Child Left Behind. Instead of using the resources that have been made available, they are teaching straight to the test, misusing the funds, and overall wasting a good opportunity. Many teachers, out of fear of being exposed as second rate, are doing whatever it takes to pass the kids. Cheating is rampant in every school that I have contact with. I believe that kids are learning even less than before. However, it is not Pres. Bush's fault. It's the administrators, the teachers, the parents, and society that are to blame. The system requires accountability. Too bad a lot of people aren't accountable.

 

I have a brother that is a teacher. And the stories he tell me about some of the kids in the class is amazing. Parents of these kids must be out to lunch because these kids have no fear of disipline. There is only so much a teacher can do legally.

Most of the blame, I believe, has to be on parents first. That is why private schools or church schools are so much on the rise. If you put money forward it says something about the expectations you have. Not that all families who have there kids in public schools are not after the best interest of the kid. Mine are in public school for now.

Public schools will be where all the children left behind will be in the future.

 

It was a flawed system from the beginning. Communism could be defended on the grounds that it would be great if it was carried out the way it was intended, but it will never be because it goes against human nature. President Bush is accountable for putting in a system that has made the system even worse than before.

 

I agree with you 100%. I believe the root to this problem starts at home and the first lessons that should be taught, by their parents, is respect for people, mainly the people in authority. To gain respect, you must give respect and it is almost like these kids go to school with a chip on their shoulders. I'm younger than most, on this forums. I just graduated last year, but I still say yes sir, no ma'am, etc. What I noticed was that after each incoming freshman class came in, the cockier and more disrespectful they got, like they ran the place, and this was at a "good" public school. Anyway, I can tell you one thing, I follow in my dad's footsteps about raising kids. I think he did a pretty good job.

 

I think you are probably a pretty good kid.:thumb:

 

Agreed. The administrative burdens of no child left behind are pushing the good teachers into the private schools. Many teachers are retiring early or going into the private sector because the program doubled their workload.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186672,00.html


http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/NEWS01/603020327/1005

 

That's evidence that it has happened, not that it is the problem with the system.