Reply #8: Bingo!

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

You hit the nail on the head!

From the posted article:

Kerry responded that states do not have to accept federal money. He defended his support of the bill's goals, saying it wasn't his fault that Bush has not provided enough money.

"We can't sit here and pretend there wasn't something to address," Kerry said of problems plaguing the education system. "Regrettably, this administration turned its back on the deal it made."

Administration officials and Republican lawmakers have insisted that the law is adequately funded.

Kerry acknowledged that the law needs to be changed. "I'm on your side," he said. "I don't want you to have to teach rote. I don't want testing to be the be-all and end-all."


NCLB is nothing but test test test. Heck, I have been TOLD by my admin to teach to the test because students MUST pass! Talk about your rote-teaching! There's hardly time to do fun, enriching activities anymore because of NCLB. Not to mention the fear of losing your job if students don't do better this year than last, regardless of how well they did previously. Funding NCLB wouldn't solve any problem. It needs to be 86'd and new laws that don't take away states' and school districts' rights need to be implemented.

I can't see major support from teachers for a candidate that supports NCLB. I sincerely wish that Kerry would look deeply into how NCLB is hurting kids, funded or not.