No Child Left Behind

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Piece of s*#t, that has good intentionswhat I think of "No Child Left Behind". Although it has good intentions it does it in the wrong way, so here are the top reasons why "No Child Left Behind" Fails: it's not just me, even in a newsletter mailed out from my school to all the housholds in the district there is a quote from the superintendent, Dr. Peterson in it, "No Child Left Behind doesn't focus on helping all students reach their full potential, merely reaching a minimum bar.", And this was in BOLD, BIG text.

1 The schools don't get funding for it
2The whole point of it is to get kids to reach a minimum bar, no reach there full potential. so the kids that are ahead don't get any funding for high potential classes or IB/AP/STEP classes, get bored and fall behind.
3If a school fails they are scattered about, so other schools now have these kids, thus there test scores go down.
4Instead of focussing on interesting disscusions, such as mood in writing, history of math, or a different unit to lead into another more important unit schools focus all their attention on what is on the test, which is merely the building blocks, not real life applications, which is overall detrimentall to the students.

Now for how to improve it:
1 focus on improvement, not a minimum bar
2 actully give funding to the schools to do the prep
3 instead of, or addition to the tests have people go in and evaluate the schools, giving advice on how to improve and ussing there input for how to help the school

Luckily I live in a good school district that has plenty of resources, but even it has had to cut down to a 6 hour day, eliminate midde school world language, eliminate a couple of high school language, (luckily) have to only have gym every other day, make the luches worse, cut back on teachers and many other budget cuts.