No Child Left Behind

[Tuxx]

What are your views on this?
I personally am kinda sorta against it, people who can't pass the grade shouldn't pass. They need to try harder.

 

[Alien Allen]

Is is a total failure and indicative of trying to let the feds manage anything

 

[Pabst]

Is is a total failure and indicative of trying to let the feds manage anything

it is amazing how people forget how badly the fed manages EVERYTHING under it's power, isnt it?

 

[Alien Allen]

it is amazing how people forget how badly the fed manages EVERYTHING under it's power, isnt it?

Yes

It speaks volumes of the illiteracy in this country when you consider 40% or so are in favor of the proposed take over of 1/6th of the economy by the govt:willy_nilly:

 

[hart]

It's a not well thought out campaign. Some children need to be left behind, so they can learn as their maturity, brain, etc., catches up. Penalizing teachers because they have students that can't be brought up to their grade level during the academic year.......that leads to promoting students that should have more time......

Children are not made from cookie cutters.

 

[Accountable]

I'm not even sure what the phrase means, and I'm a teacher! I've got special ed kids who couldn't make it in earlier grades being shuffled along and stuck in classrooms with other kids their age .... and being left behind every fucking time they enter the classroom.

 

[Tangerine]

How in the world do you interpret it to mean that everyone passes no matter what their grades? That is in no way shape or form a part of "No Child Left Behind."

NCLB created the nationwide standardized testing. It's not something I think was a great idea - and it's execution has been dreadful and damaging. But it seems like the OP doesn't have any understanding of what it's all about.

 

[Veronica]

umm.. My son has been one of those kids shuffled around.. I dont agree with it, but unfortunately if he wasnt, he would never move forward. It would take him YEARS to understand first grade.. But I dont completely agree with them moving him when he doesnt even have the ground level of the grade before him..

 

[Accountable]

umm.. My son has been one of those kids shuffled around.. I dont agree with it, but unfortunately if he wasnt, he would never move forward. It would take him YEARS to understand first grade.. But I dont completely agree with them moving him when he doesn't even have the ground level of the grade before him..

It's such a tough call that the primary teacher and parent should carry the most weight in making such decisions, since they have the most knowledge of the child. I have an 18-year-old student who is good with his hands, but his learning disability makes him unable to communicate his ideas well, verbally or in writing. His brain just locks up somehow. I tried to get him into the carpentry class so that he could learn a trade, but the school rules say that only juniors and seniors can take it, and he's only in the 10th grade. He has to pass English before he can swing a hammer. :wtf:

Of course that's not an NCLB thing as far as I can tell, just a stupid bureaucracy thing.

 

[Hans]

How in the world do you interpret it to mean that everyone passes no matter what their grades? That is in no way shape or form a part of "No Child Left Behind."

NCLB created the nationwide standardized testing. It's not something I think was a great idea - and it's execution has been dreadful and damaging. But it seems like the OP doesn't have any understanding of what it's all about.

harsh, but true.