Is it No Child Left Behind or is it No Brother of Bush or fellow Bushies Left Behind?

Question

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_42/b4005059.htm

Follow the money--and the reasoning for anything the President proposes becomes perfectly clear. Apparently bankrupting an S&L is the necessary qualification to receive a multi-million dollar no-bid contract--being the President's brother Neil helps a little too!!

Of course he wants Congress to renew his No Child Left Behind legislation--Why would he want his brother to be unemployed again? Nevermind the program is nothing but an absolute failure. It's a perfectly legal racket to feed the Bushie Businesses who are profiting from it's inception.

Here's a teacher's breakdown of NCLB's inadequacies.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/hoax.shtml

Where does the money go?
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/june24-05/funds.htm

Funny how corruption is the Bush Administration's answer to our Educational woes.

Educators have a two-fold interest. To teach our kids and make a living doing it. The conservative agenda is all about privatization and taking monies away from public schools for tax breaks for the wealthy who wish their kids to be enrolled in private/charter schools. Placing a blanket quota of demands on our educators with financial penalties for failure serves no one. Teachers are underpaid--they don't create a product and their efforts are to ensure upward social mobility--two things that the wealthy overlords can't justify. Why I have to spell these facts out to anyone , or why anyone could be so ignorant of these priciples is disheartening.

Answer 1

Dumbya just wants other lazy morons like him to have a chance that his daddy bought for him.

Answer 2

What nonsense. I'm a teacher. Every year I hear teachers complain about having a standardized test they have to live up to, scared they'll fail (heck, so am I), and whining about having to give up their favorite subjects to teach math, English, social studies, and science.
They fight like mad, but every year we get better and better at it, every year they match the goals or have people come in to help them make their goals, and every year the kids get better education instead of being taught basket weaving.

These are the same teachers who whined about being asked to take a test themselves. They said, "Why should we be tested. We already went to school!"

It's called accountability. Some teachers don't want it.

I do. If I'm good enough, I'll survive and have better peers to work with. If I'm not, then tough. I'd rather risk it. Some of us put the kids quality of education FIRST, not the fears of teachers.

Hold us accountable, folks. You pay us. We work for you.

Answer 3

Education isn't about $$.... DUH
teachers need to be qualified and like other professionals have to re-certify and or take continuing education courses..
educators need to recognize that students are not a statistical game that can be managed when standards are dumbed down to get higher stats which produce personal Kudos and money for themselves, their school/their district..
... As for you dislike of Bush...be careful as obsessive hatred consumes an individual...get help and enjoy your life...

Answer 4

Since when it is the Governments job to provide education? Was that Hitler or Marx that wanted Government run schools?

I forget, I went to a Gov. School.

Will you people stop calling it a public school? It is a government school, gahhhhh

Also, to the teacher, thanks for your honesty, but in most cases, how can we hold you accountable, the Union covers your **** so well, we have little choice.