"No Child Left Behind" good or bad?

Answer 1

good idea
bad execution

it cuts funding to "failing" schools and continues to fund passing schools. it would seem to me that it would be better to give more support to the schools that need help. our society needs an overhaul of our education system. it was a good try but we need more.

Answer 2

Good: Forces schools to achieve academically high standards
Bad: Those schools that are trying, and succeeding, or are tying, don't have enough funding.

There is so much wrong with the educational system...

I was in an advanced program, and we did not get any extra money than the one the government allocates per child. This program should have gotten much more money than it did, for it provided future engineers, and everyone that went through it was freakishly brilliant (I was an exception :P). Why didn't the program get more funding? Each child graduated with at least one award in some mathematics competition state wise or some other award. We had more merit scholars in our program than other high schools combined. We provided top athletes, and everything....

Answer 3

Very bad (and yeah, I'm a conservative). It ignores a huge gap in IQ between blacks and whites and a small gap in IQ between hispanics and whites.

There are genetic differences that guarentee no child left behind will be a failure.

http://www.amren.com/9211issue/9211issue.html

Probably, the only solution is the one thing no one will admit is needed or tolerate happening. Classes need to be seggregated. Not by race, as that is inappropriate, but by performance (which amounts to the same thing but doesn't unfairly classified exceptional minorities). Poor performers need intense intervention. It's a proven fact that a low IQ person can, in fact, compensate for this with extra effort.

Don't blacks and hispanics deserve that extra effort? Or, are you simply going to blame the system for their failure when you aren't tailoring it to their special needs.

The problem here is political. The republicans are afraid of doing this because they don't want to be criticized as racist. And the democrats won't do this because they actually ARE racist and do everything to make damn sure blacks are kept down.

Meanwhile, another gereration shoots down the tubes. It doesn't have to be this way.

Answer 4

It's great.

I am not an elementary or secondary school teacher, but have a graduate degree and teach some community college courses. In nearly every profession you will get fired if you do your job poorly. This is not true in education. Teachers ride the system and are not held accountable. Think about college students...the ones who can't figure out what to do with their degree always say..."well I guess I could teach"... Even at the graduate level, education programs have considerably lower GRE admission standards than real masters and Ph.D. programs. It is time that teachers not stand behind the protections of the teachers' unions and be held accountable for what they teach. The good ones should be paid according to their merit and not seniority and the bad ones should be fired.

I overcame a school district of dumbass teachers to get a Ph.D.

Answer 5

I think the concept of not leaving any child behind is good.
So to me, cyber schools are the way to go. Parents who want
their child to succeed will make sure that they do. Those who
don`t have the time, patience, etc, will send them to someone
else and that person will teach them.
At cyber school, a child will learn at their own pace and not be
made fun of. The child will not be left behind by teachers who
made a weekly plan and must cover it no matter what.

Answer 6

friccin retarded... what the no child left behind crap means, is that if a kid is a moron, he doesnt get any extra help to learn the stuff, he just gets shuffled through, and then we have one more 40 year old grill worker at mcdonalds. what no child left behind means.... is that if you dont wanna do anything in school thats ok, because we will let you graduate anyways. it is why the US is getting dumber, it is why we have more and more ppl not being able to find a job because they have that high school diploma, but couldnt figure a 15% tip with a calculator.... those laws and ideas need to be forgotten about, and if a person doesnt want to apply themselves in school then they should be workin in a coal mine or diggin ditches

Answer 7

One thing that I believe is important, especially for youngsters who can't apply themselves, or are to young and anxious to get on with their lives forgoing education, is the importance of a GED.

Most people don't think a GED is important, but it is. Here's why.

At some point in time, even the hard core drop out might start thinking about some sort of additional schooling. He might be 25 or 30 years old before that kicks in, but without a GED he's dead in the water. He knows that he can't do anything without that GED, and chances are, he won't do anything.

On the other hand, if he did get his GED, he knows he can still move forward, and many times they do, because the gate's not locked!

Answer 8

My mom has been teaching fourth grade for nearly 30 years. She says its difficult for the kids to grasp anything. This would be because the building blocks are missing. The education system has been slipping over the past couple decades with the breakdown of families and concentration on materialism, in my opinion. Bring back CTBS. They were more fun anyway.

Answer 9

While the mainstream press avoided it, actually Rush Limbaugh reported a news item that black kids under the program actually started performing much better.

The problem is no school teacher can make up for students coming into the school with absolutely no intellectual development in the home.

And, no school teacher can make up for a kid who is lazy, or low i.q. It can't be done.

In Texas, if a kid drops out in most districts they record him as moved to another district.

Answer 10

If it works long term to improve reading and thus learning skills it will have been a good program. I have some worries though in that it puts all the emphasis on schools and none on parents. If parents get in the act early, by reading to children and catching their imagination then children have more desire to learn and learn easier as a result. I have seen this over and over just in my own family.There needs to be more emphasis on this and other parent involvement.

Answer 11

Its probably good but I'm not a teacher.

Why is it called "no child left behind" when its purpose is to leave children behind who are not competent to pass?

Why do Republican programs always have to have Orwellian names?