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Re: Re: Re: Re: No Child Left Behind
Basically the states just snuck them through all the while cashing the federal checks. Everyone was whining about goobers graduating who couldn't read. It was especially evident with atheletes who got to college on scholarships and couldn't read at all. Herchel Walker at the U of GA had to be tutored for a full year just to be able to read his books. Anfrenee Hardaway at Memphis State couldn't pass the basic skills test to begin his freshman year.
With these examples word got out that we are mass producing idiots. Civic leaders demanded action from the school districts, because LORD KNOWS they are not about to accept responsibility for pumping out future felons and dumb ass punks, the school districts stuck their hands out and the good old fed did what they always do stuff it with cash. No oversight, just trust me. Well guess what, the goobers got better gyms, better school lunches, cool movie projectors and new textbooks that they still could not read. Like the shampoo bottle directions, biytch, cash and repeat they cycle continues.
NCLB is an effort for the fed to stop blindly handing the states cash so it can be squandered on band uniforms and lights for the football field. It is a program that sets up a gauge to monitor that we the tax payers are getting something for our money, the states are spending wisely, and progress is finally being made with the money being spent. The states and local school districts now have someone looking over their shoulders requiring them to make progress or by God changes will be made. Of course they hate that because they have been operating with impunity forever and now all of a sudden the mean old fed is coming in and wanting to see bona fide progress.
Will it save every kid? No Will it make 90% of them math majors in college? No. What it does is it makes sure the "institutions" that are charged with teaching them are up to speed. The rest is up to them. It takes away their biych that the schools are to blame
Now, the part about NCLB that chaps my butt is the liberals, the NEA and all the other critics who wretch at the fed getting down into their business.
1. If the state and local school systems had been doing what they were supposed to be instead of running kid mills it would not have come to this.
2. This is a conservative outreach to the poor and downtrodden that we hear so much about. It is not the rich and upper middle class who are whining about crappy schools, it is the civic leaders in the poor districts. Here we go, instead of giving you a bigger check we are going to make sure the schools do their jobs by monitoring. If they fail, you will have options to change schools, we will change administrations, even teachers if we have to but the schools will perform. Why is it that anything less than a check is not viewed as assistance?
We already have been. Thats what this program is supposed to fix. I can equate it to the good old GA public school system. When I was growing up in small town rural Ga there were 2 (or more)classes for each grade, an A and a B and even a C. 5A for example would be the kids who were in the upper portion of the grade level, 5B and 5C would be everyone else. The cirriculum was different, the pace was different and the methods of course were different. At the end of the year low and behold everyone passed. It didn't matter if the kids in 5B or C could read or not they were pushed along because there was a fresh crop right behind them and they needed seats. For years and years they would just push them through. They even got to the point they quit giving out diplomas and gave out completion certificates. All it meant was that you went to school, not that you grasped anything while there. All along the states were getting federal money but nothing changed. Before long there were hoards of illiterate goobers.
Basically the states just snuck them through all the while cashing the federal checks. Everyone was whining about goobers graduating who couldn't read. It was especially evident with atheletes who got to college on scholarships and couldn't read at all. Herchel Walker at the U of GA had to be tutored for a full year just to be able to read his books. Anfrenee Hardaway at Memphis State couldn't pass the basic skills test to begin his freshman year.
With these examples word got out that we are mass producing idiots. Civic leaders demanded action from the school districts, because LORD KNOWS they are not about to accept responsibility for pumping out future felons and dumb ass punks, the school districts stuck their hands out and the good old fed did what they always do stuff it with cash. No oversight, just trust me. Well guess what, the goobers got better gyms, better school lunches, cool movie projectors and new textbooks that they still could not read. Like the shampoo bottle directions, biytch, cash and repeat they cycle continues.
NCLB is an effort for the fed to stop blindly handing the states cash so it can be squandered on band uniforms and lights for the football field. It is a program that sets up a gauge to monitor that we the tax payers are getting something for our money, the states are spending wisely, and progress is finally being made with the money being spent. The states and local school districts now have someone looking over their shoulders requiring them to make progress or by God changes will be made. Of course they hate that because they have been operating with impunity forever and now all of a sudden the mean old fed is coming in and wanting to see bona fide progress.
Will it save every kid? No Will it make 90% of them math majors in college? No. What it does is it makes sure the "institutions" that are charged with teaching them are up to speed. The rest is up to them. It takes away their biych that the schools are to blame
Now, the part about NCLB that chaps my butt is the liberals, the NEA and all the other critics who wretch at the fed getting down into their business.
1. If the state and local school systems had been doing what they were supposed to be instead of running kid mills it would not have come to this.
2. This is a conservative outreach to the poor and downtrodden that we hear so much about. It is not the rich and upper middle class who are whining about crappy schools, it is the civic leaders in the poor districts. Here we go, instead of giving you a bigger check we are going to make sure the schools do their jobs by monitoring. If they fail, you will have options to change schools, we will change administrations, even teachers if we have to but the schools will perform. Why is it that anything less than a check is not viewed as assistance?
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