Have any kids been left behind in DUH-bya's "No child left behind act"?

Question

Share your experience.

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Answer 1

A FRIGGIN RIGHT , MINE FOR ONE! THE SCHOOL SYSTEM GOT AN EXTRA $22,000.00 PLUS THE $8000.00 FOR HER PER YEAR AND THE DUMBA$$ TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATION MADE ME FILE DUE PROCESS ON EM THEN BUSH CUT BENEFITS FOR THE HANDICAPPED AND WANTS A TEST DONE FOR KIDS EACH YEAR BUT THE DUMBA$$ FORGOT TO TELL THE SCHOOL THAT HANDICAPPED PEOPLE CAN'T TAKE THE SAME FRIGGIN TEST AS THE OTHER CHILDREN AND THE TEACHERS HAVE BEEN FREAKIN OUT ON HOW TO TEST HER! I did upper case to have you notice that some people do get a big scre*in by Ol' Duh-bya. It's pretty bad when teachers tell you they hate Bush ! and it's not their fault! Sorry to be so blunt but I have went through a lot just to get an education for my child and Bush cuts the benefits but the oil and his Daddy is more important than the American people.I sure hope he's happy. Like I said once and I'll say it again, I hope he sits in a rest home with Annie Wilkes for a nurse.His perfect health may turn bad just like all the poor people out there that have no health care to go get tests to stay aware and healthy.The whole system is messed up and our fore fathers would turn over in their graves if they knew what we let go on. I'm also sick of hearing the teachers say Bush is making it hard on us.whyaskwhy, u are full of it, unless u have a special needs child. Its the gifted children the teachers want to teach because there is no challange in those kids and they don't have to do much work but want that big pat on the back , look at me I taught the gifted children !

Answer 2

Well you might have to look at some of the stats on education to see what has happened in the last few years but that will not determine if bushes plan is a success or not .
THE most indicative answer can be found in how much funding has been appropriated for education .
THIS i am afraid tells many that it is all talk and no go .
College tuition is up 50% in most institutions and local school funding is down or at 2001 levels .
THIS with an increasing student body all the time .
Well i guess if it where not minority's it would be different .
Republicans and democrats alike all send there white kids to private schools .This is where an education and socialization is set up for dominance among wealthier whites .
FOR the average American an education is not really needed after 8 grade and this is where the system breaks down .
This is the point that test scores begin to drop among students in the public school system .
This is not by accident but by design .Parents are accustom to kids staying in school till at least 16 while they work .THE high schools have become centers to watch kids till they turn 16 and can be left alone .
So for several years these students are not pressured to learn anything but attend class and turn in some assignments .THIS is why we have high school grads that can not effectively read or know anything about the world , business or how things operate in the real world .
They become the workers .
THOSE kids who make it Thur private education and go on to college become managers and owners of the workers .
WE need more Indians then chiefs and this is done by design .More crap from both parties about education to come .
We can fix this problem if we want . I had no air condition or media center or computers in my school .But i did have teachers who cared enough to educate all the students .
We need to teach the basics and expand from there to a liberal education of what the world is .
NOT how it works .We all know that farmers plant the food in the ground and harvest it and ship it to market .
What we need to teach is who gets this food and why .DOES asparagus really cost 3 dollars a pound , did the price of broccoli fall when bush said i do not like broccoli .How does public opinion and pressure really relate to what we produce and sell and at what price .
We need to educate students about the world and the people in it who feel they are intitled and just who these people are .

Answer 3

You can't expect school districts to meet ridiculous standards while pulling funding.

The top school districts by any measure done in that last 20 years have consistantly been in places like Wisconsin and Iowa. Ironnically these two states are at the very bottom of the "Least Compliant No Child Left Behind List"

The program is a joke with a cute name...to draw attention away from education so he can do "more important things"

Like spend 300 billion on a war we can never win. Wonder what 300 billion would do if it were dumped in say...the no child left behind program. Talk about backwards priorities.

Answer 4

Yes...the more advanced/gifted children have certainly been left behind. There's too much focus on learning "disabilities" Just because some things come easier for gifted/advanced students does not mean they should be left to ride the surf by themselves. Their needs matter, too.

Answer 5

No wealthy child is left behind, under Bush's plan. The poverty level has increased and the children of the poor continue to receive less than average education.

Citizens who are under-educated and uneducated are beneficial to this administration -- they are not taught to think for themselves, and therefore believe everything that the mainstream press and the Bush administration tells them.

Answer 6

NCLB is systematically attempting to close public schools and turn America's treasured community schools into a third world system A stealth campaign to privatize American education, George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) threatens to close more than 6,000 public schools, pushing dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children out of our neighborhood schools.
NCLB shifts control of every aspect of American public education to a faceless Washington bureaucracy while marginalizing successful methods, materials, teacher education, staff development programs, and curriculum. NCLB causes devastating results by forcing financially strapped schools to squander meager resources on high-stakes standardized tests. It is an effort by the government to blacklist successful professors, institutions, methods, and materials that deviate from the NCLB party line. It was made us by George Bush's top education advisors who call National Education Association members "terrorists" and would like to "blow up" teachers' colleges. We should urge every American parent and teacher to take action now- before time runs out.
NCLB is another attempt by Dubya (as usual) to hold back the children of the average American who can’t afford to send their children to private schools.

Answer 7

No.

The fact is that kids are left behind by their irresponsible and unfit parents who refuse to fulfill their obligation to their own children.

Answer 8

Yes all of the kids that schools shut down because of the lack of funding that his budget cuts into education made.

Answer 9

How many kids were left behind before??

Answer 10

All of the kids whose parents do not instill the value of education and discipline into them at home.This has happened before Bush and will continue long after him if something is not done about liberalism run amok.