The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

[Koby]

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (public law 107-110) is a United States federal law that reauthorizes a number of federal programs that aim to improve the performance of America's primary and secondary schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states, school districts, and schools, as well as providing parents more flexibility in choosing which schools their children will attend.

Well, the results are in for this year, and not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties. Although the federal term is highly qualified, the definition is widely regarded as more of a minimum qualification, because it requires teachers to know what they teach.

Gotta love this law.

[-PHXN- New001]

The one problem I have with it is that it can cause to get a child to be struggling even more in further years of his educations.

One of my little bros friends had the problem, where he could not stay back because of this polocy, and soon became struggling in school.

He was lucky that his family was wealthy, so they moved him to a private school, (and because the school was not government funded) he was able to repeat the grade.

Its a great polocy, but it sometimes causes a rush in education

[VincentsLucrecia]

My one friend has actually failed a few grades over three times, and I believe he was supposed to graduate this past year, but he's still a freshman now. I have no idea what's going to happen to him...

I like the idea of this poilcy, but as PN said, students can struggle more if they can't repeat a grade.

[Necrophiliac]

I believe all education is rushed. I think it should be at least two years in the same grade before moving on to the next...

[Riku]

I sometimes found that to be true.

[-PHXN- New001]

Yah but realisticaly eveyone in the US goes to school, not to get educated... but cause its law, and they want alot of money. What kindof motivation is that?

[† Emotional Outlet]

Eh, not everyone. I don't go to school because I just want to socialise or because Big Brother tells me to do so. I actually do go to school to get an education. Anything school doesn't teach me, I usually learn on my own. A lot of my Internet time is not, contrary to popular belief, composed of pr0n, Flash games, and forums, but rather research on stuff that I do find interesting and of educational value. (Woot, etymology and conventions can entertain me for hours.)

I don't feel rushed at all. Yeah, some stuff can be challenging for me (chemistry and APUSH, hiss), but I feel comfortable with the pace I'm learning at and the pace the teachers are teaching at. Granted, I tend to "over"-achieve when it comes to school, simply because for the most part, I can't stand to be given a low grade. My first B on an essay was not a pretty picture.

My old school in Seaside apparently has a shortage of teachers. Last year the Spanish teacher was gone for a huge chunk of the year, and this year the Honours English teacher was AWOL. I take it that either people stopped caring or they finally got a teacher because no has told me anything about their educational situation.

[Jammer]

I don't really see much good coming out of this. I mean, all it's really doing is setting expectations lower rather than higher and forcing teachers to "teach to the test," which really doesn't help educate students. Plus, each state makes up its own standardized tests, so they make the standardized tests super easy so that their results are on par with other states.

It just seems to punish the poor who get stuck with the shitty education, while allowing people like PHXN's rich friend to slip through.

[Slayer]

all i know is thanks to this policy I did not have to repeat fourth grade which I am very thankful for.what you guys said about strugling more is true but luckily for me after fourth grade I decided to get my ass and my act together and worked towards better grades.Here I am now,I am not a genius and I'm still stupid and have some of the worst classes but I'm good in all of them nonetheless.However I do hate myself because I don't know how I got into those classes after doing so good in my previous classes but whatever.

it saved me so I think it's good but the kid has to make an effort to do good it can't be done for him so if they still struggle they have to step up their game.

[Original Sora-14]

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (public law 107-110) is a United States federal law that reauthorizes a number of federal programs that aim to improve the performance of America's primary and secondary schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states, school districts, and schools, as well as providing parents more flexibility in choosing which schools their children will attend.

Well, the results are in for this year, and not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties. Although the federal term is highly qualified, the definition is widely regarded as more of a minimum qualification, because it requires teachers to know what they teach.

Gotta love this law.

Ironic how we haven't heard about this for a while now what with people wanting dates for pulling soldiers out of.....where were we fighting a war at?