Reply #17: NCLB

[Donna Zen]

Is a Trojan Horse meant to take down public education. What happens if your students do well? The following year they must do better on the friggin test...and the next...and the next. It's a game of raise the bar until you fail.

The school where I teach has very low funding--very rural--very poor, and yet we manage to score among the top ten in the state. NCLB is out to change all of that. Because it is all about "accountability" the biggest change is reams of paper work. Oh, and if a kid is under preforming, well NCLB says that we must give the student a choice of high schools. But we're rural, so how do we do this? Easy says the Fed, simple put a school within the school with no money to do that.

There is no model for how anything should actually work. I love that. Anything we have changed is subject to being changed next year. Go figure.

This bill will never be funded, but if even if were, it would still be a very bad bill. It is bad public policy that fails to take into account the real and pressing needs of schools. A creation of the backward heads people.

Complain? What? And be labeled whinners, 'cause you know that is what would happen.