Why is this even in effect? All it is doing is dumbing down our children! I have to actually go get books and teach my kids at home after they have been in school all day! The education department needs an overhaul!
2007-02-10 12:58:53 · 8 answers · asked by aal0623 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
You are far from alone. I don’t know anyone who truly understands it that believes in it.
NCLB forces teachers to focus solely on the lowest students in the classroom. It forces them not to teach to understanding, but to teach short cuts so that they can pass a test instead. Average and above average children become bored while below average children become overwhelmed.
You should be a teacher who is told that if 100% of their children do not pass a test, they will be fired. Nothing is taken into consideration, not the fact that all children do not learn at the same rate, or that all children do not have the same background and support.
This year half of my second graders came into me not being able to add 2 + 1, ( I work in an impoverished school. Most of my children have parents who are illiterate.) Yet I was informed that I needed to get all of my students to pass a math test that was primarily regrouping (carrying and borrowing) by October! If not, I could get fired!
Please write to your governor, congress people and representatives. NCLB is up for readoption this year and they need to know that although we want a stronger public education system, NCLB is NOT the way to go.
2007-02-11 05:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by Lysa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are not the only one. We jokingly say that "No child left behind" is only the first verse of the song that Bush and many Republicans want everyone to sing. The entire 3 verses goes like this: No child left behind; No teacher left standing, and No school left public."
To say in a few more years that any public school system is a failure simply because their graduation rate is less than 100% is beyond stupidity. Nobody requires 100% success at anything! That is like saying that any NFL football team that does not win every single game of the season is a failure. Maybe we should hold our lawmakers up to the same bar?
2007-02-10 13:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i have seen some dumb non secular nonsense in the previous yet this idea is way previous stupid and actual alongside with newborn abuse. someone can not be "experienced" to do what's unnatural for them. regardless of in the adventure that your beliefs say Left fingers are incorrect. Get into the twenty first century and eliminate the 3000 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous superstitions and nonsense. John Lester of the pink Sox is a perfect get mutually of a left handed individual doing properly and excelling in his interest. did not your God supply him that ability?
2016-12-04 00:37:31 · answer #3 · answered by schiavone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, the sentiment is laudable...its the implementation of it that is flawed. Surely, the maudlin sentiment of 'leaving no child behind' is roles off most tongues quite easily; what is left out of the equation is the simple fact that the kids who get left behind are left behind because of circumstances created by Bush and others of his ilk. Cuts to health care, child care, most all 'safety net' programs which have widened the gulf between the richest and poorest, doom these kids from the start.
Bush talks a good game about those of us who oppose this are quietly 'expressing racism' and I say he can stick it up his parliamentary procedure.....we face the reality of what these kids are dealing with EVERYDAY....
Bush created this crap in Texas, and frankly, while I was happy enough to get rid of him as Gov. I felt sort of sorry for the rest of the country.....Spellings is hardly qualified for the job she maintains, but hey....that is the nature of political appointments. I still laugh about Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey (OF ALL PLACES), named as the EPA Secretary.....
2007-02-10 13:26:41 · answer #4 · answered by Professor K 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know of anyone who likes it. This is when you have a political decision based on no realistic facts. No Child Left Behind is genetically impossible.
2007-02-10 14:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Paul E 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
COMMON CORE IS VERY STUPID MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT IT GOING TO DUMB DOWN CHILDERN >
THE SENATE KIDS ,THE CONGRESS KIDS AND THE PRES.OBAMA kids and the very RICH DON"T HAVE TO DO COMMON CORE > IT TIME WE TAKE BACK OUR KIDS AND TEACH THEM OUR SELF .
2014-08-31 15:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by H Bruce A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stupidest? Sucks to be left behind doesn't it
2007-02-10 13:08:20 · answer #7 · answered by allindotcom@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think, therefore I don't care.
2007-02-10 14:52:19 · answer #8 · answered by InTROLLigent 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋