Is it true what they say...that we have a plan to leave NO CHILD BEHIND?

Question

or is no child behind another one of those devilish titles that suggests the opposite of the real intent?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071029/ap_on_re_us/dropout_factories

mlf...nice, so the children can pick their poison as to how to be left behind...either by school closing (teachers held accountable), or graduation (teachers not held accountable). Either way the child is left behind...agreed?

Answer 1

No, Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' program is a failure just as it was when he instituted it in Texas as governor of that state. In Texas, they cooked the numbers of the program to make it look effective by recording children that had quit school as children that had moved out of state.

Answer 2

Under the NCLB those dropout factories will be weeded out and closed down. Also, I'd like to see some research done as to how many schools were dropout factories before the NCLB was enacted to get a better picture. Before NCLB the way to deal with a failing student was to graduate that student. Now teachers and other faculty are being held accountable.
Not Agreed, with NCLB eventually the problem will, and is, getting better, without it the problem will remain. We don't live in a perfect world, but doing nothing or just graduating flunkies, which is what went on previously, is not the solution.
Those schools and teachers who don't make the cut will have competent replacement. Also if you read that story closely you would also come to the conclusion that we need discipline to be brought back into the classroom. Thanks to the Libs we neither have discipline or competent faculty in many of our schools today.