Reply #6: I have to agree with you there.

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I'm a teacher. I work in a large district; somewhere between 25 - 30K elementary students, last count. I've been working for this district for 20 years, and have connections all over the area.

Kerry could tell any auditorium full of our teachers that he wanted NCLB to be fully funded, and he would be met with stony silence. I've yet to meet a teacher that thought NCLB would help a single kid, or that applauded the legislation and just wished for more funding so that we could do more tests.

Saying "I don't want testing to be the be-all and end-all," while you're saying you support the legislation that puts testing in that position, isn't going to gain him any teachers' votes.