More on NCLB

Here's a little more of what I think about No Child Left Behind. This law states that every child must be on the same level by the year 2014. This level says that each child should be performing at 100% on the proficient level of the state standardized tests! Every single child? That includes children with disabilities I will have you know! I think that every child learns at a different pace and not all can perform at 100%! That just seems to be an impossible goal to cover. So you see, according to my last post, that teachers truly must focus all of their energy on teaching the subjects for the state standardized tests. They must spend most of their time reviewing and going over information that will be on them so that each class in every school will be able to make the standards. If they don't achieve their goals every year then the school will be punished in a certain way each time they don't fulfill the goal. Once again, I feel like this law should be abolished or changed in many ways so that it can actually help and not hurt our education of this generation and others to follow!