SAT Scores for Teachers Are Up 30 Points thanks to Bush's "No Child Left Behind." Are Dems Angry Because Bush

Question

.... cares about kids and the quality of teachers that we put into the classroom?

What does this say about Dems who don't support NCLB (even though Kennedy sponsored it)?

Bush also makes teachers have higher GPAs than they used to.

Why didn't Clinton do that? Don't the Dems care about your kids?

(improvement in Verbal + Math)

Answer 1

Yep - Bush rocks!

Answer 2

First off, I'm a liberal, not a democrat, and I don't like the party. I care about it, because a lot of the schools that were never able to get close to the scores due to funding issues now are slipping even further away, and their students suffer in general for it, gradewise and testwise. There's plenty of other reasons to hate NCLB, so I don't even need this one, but this seems to be your focus, so lets go with it.
Also, teachers don't have GPA's, students do. I haven't heard any statistics about GPA increases among students, so I don't know where you're coming from with that. Even if this is true, it's only true among schools that are recieving a large amount of money from NCLB, others are forced to deal with a small amount, thus reducing their GPA's. This increases problems already in existance of class differences among schools, disenfranchising many schools in places like LA, where schools simply haven't had the resources to raise their test scores.

Answer 3

have confidence me, the individuals don't get it... All everybody has to do is examine a number of the questions approximately Y/A , enable a lone the responses, to be sure how little persons are prepared to truthfully verify out the information... they could care much less NO appropriations bill has been exceeded (first time in 20yrs!!!) VA days springing up and the Dem's are sitting on that bill.... meanwhile people decide to point at Bush whilst the Dem's new SCHIP bill demands greater suitable spending , much less help for those the bill grow to be truthfully written for (the undesirable),nonetheless includes babies as much as age 26(hmmmm.......)and includes families as much as $eighty,0000. Bush stated he does not bypass the final one.. Why could he bypass this one... needless to say it quite is all Democratic grandstanding without thought or look after those it truthfully outcomes.... no longer something new.. :(

Answer 4

I my area, the teachers have started teaching the test rather than the thought process so that their schools' funding won't be cut. I have heard this from students at all the schools. Test scores have to go up a certain percentage year for year under the "nclb", or funding is imperiled.

Any system designed this way is bound to fail eventually. How do you keep improving after a school's aggregate score tops 90%? You have to average 95% next year to keep your funding? It's preposterous and potentially disastrous.

Answer 5

What do youj mean, that new hires are scoring higher on SAT and their GPA are higher? Because of course teachers don't take tests or get grades.

As for nclb, the trouble is that teachers concentrate on teaching to the test and skip other important classes. Less civics, more math; less history, more science. Makes for a sorry state of affairs.

Seems like it is designed to cause schools to "fail" so they can be taken over, privatized. Sneaky tricky way to go about it, at the expense of our kids.

Answer 6

Could it be that the SAT changes? My dad complains that his students are only taught for tests, and not knowledge. So when they go to college, they fail those tests en mass even though they did well on the SAT. So I still don't support it.

They don't teach as many important things any more. I spent most of my time in my high school math class making games on my calculator because the teacher was forced to teach things I learned in middle school. And I made A's on nearly every test because they were so easy. Then I took some college tests and they're completely different!
In high school, its 'learn this formula abc for this test.' That's all. We are not taught how to approach a problem we don't know how to do. It's recipe, not thought. We are losing the intricacies. Then college comes and it's a whole new thing. They aren't teaching for an EOC. And so many fail. As my parents always remind me.

Answer 7

Actually the amount of total points on the SAT has increased by 800 points since NCLB so...You tell me what that means.

Answer 8

Democrats are money hungry lazy people who think all people who don't work hard should have the ability to have as much as the actually workers. I praise Bush for all that he's done for this country and others. =)

Answer 9

That means nothing. SAT scores for the children are down. Who cares what a teacher's SAT is if they can't teach.

Look, I am an educator--and I see what "No Child Left Behind" is doing to (not for) our children. You can give teachers al the paper qualificatios you want. It doesn't mean squat if the kids don't learn--and they are not learning.