what barriers are you coming across due to the no child left behind policy?

Answer 1

First let me say that as so many things have, this program was begun under the best of intentions. However, in my experience this affects the more advanced children in the class.

It does indeed help the students that need the help. But at what cost? What of the children that lose interest in school because they are lacking challenging assignments the help them expand their horizons.
If we could only meet both groups of students needs then we truly would have a top notch educational system.

Holding back others so that all can be at the same level is unfair, just the same as leaving behind the ones that can't keep up is.

They are our children not pawns to be used in our governments plans to propagate their agendas.

Answer 2

My children are of above average intelligence. The No Child Act left them sitting amongst a sea of struggling children, waiting for them to catch up. Subsequentially, the school district needed to move them to an Honors class, but many school districts are not willing to, or will not, take such action.

While this Act helps struggling children, it hinders the smarter ones.

Also, the Act concentrates so highly on schools testing scores to secure benefits for the district. These schools are not "teaching", rather they are cramming the test answers down the children's throats, which they promptly forget so they can be programmed for the next batch of testing.

It is one of the worst things that the government could have done to inner city schools. I have since moved to a more affluent neighborhood (sad, but true how money works in schools), and my children are now successfully integrated with their peers.