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35 months ago

What do you think of the No Child Left Behind Act?

I'm currently studying to become a teacher, and in the last education class I took the focus was on the No Child Left Behind Act because as a teacher I would have to make sure I taught to it and met accountability standards.
Personally, I do believe their need to be some sort of standards that the schools need to meet but I can't help but wonder if No Child Left Behind is the best way to go about it. In Virginia, where I live, everything revolves around the SOLs. Teachers and students are always stressed out, and it leaves little room for creativity or proper learning.
Lately there has been a lot of corruption in school administrations to get passing marks on the SOLs because without it they don't get the funding they need to pay for supplies or teacher's salaries which they need to even be in the running to get passing marks on the SOLs.
So I guess what I'm wondering is do you think we're on the right track with No Child Left Behind, or is there a better way to do things?
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FLAHONEY33

  32 months ago
As a parent, it's MY job to make sure my kid doesn't get left behind...
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amoran1229

  35 months ago
There has to be a better way to do things definitely. I live in Florida where we have the FCAT, probably very similar to your SOLs. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. My son has short term and long term memory impairment. So basically he can't retain any information for long. He needs a lot of help with school work because of this. He is going into 5th grade and reads almost as well as my 2nd grader. Anyway, if a student doesn't pass the FCAT they are retained but because of his disability they make an exception. I understand they don't want him in the same grade forever but instead they are just passing him on. This makes no sense because isn't that what the No Child Left Behind is for anyway? to not just pass along a child? My reasons are different than yours but I agree there has to be a better way. I just recently removed all of the children from public school to homeschool them for this precise reason.
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NMCB3299

  35 months ago
The child's education begins early, even before they ever step into a school. It starts at home with parent's reading to them. Far too many parent's are struggling to feed, clothe and provide shelter fo their family and do not have time for much one on one with their child. Many very small children end up in daycare and later when they get to school they may not be ready and their parent's rely on school as a free babysitter or daycare center. My mother used to work at an inner city school and many parent's sent their children to that school unprepared to learn. Also, it never failed that the day before school let out for Christmas vacation a couple parent's deliberately abandoned their young children at the school hoping some kind hearted teacher would take them home for the holidays'. My mother ended up staying late til child welfare or the police came to take the children away to a children's shelter. That was the sad truth of what some schools' have become--a free babysitting service--nothing more.
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FLAHONEY33

  35 months ago
Honestly, I think the entire school system is the problem. It doesn't serve it's customers (the parents) & hasn't much helped the kids either. Basic education is very important but when it comes to higher grades most of these kids are simply going through the motions & really hate school. It's very frustrating as a parent. I'm not a teacher, nor do I have the time to be one or sit in class all day. It's enough that I have to be a part-time teacher at night doing homework. Maybe the schools should take the time to ask their customers (that would be us) what we want & need. I guarantee it won't be starting school at 9 & ending at 2. Or all these half days, teacher work days & mostly meaningless holidays out of school. To me it seems the schools serve themselves first & we get whatever you might want to give us. I'm pushing my kids to learn all they can & 'get it over with' so they can do what they enjoy in life. Schools try to cover so many bases that they barely cover any. So many kids can't read, write or speak well. Why is that? Know a few school teachers that end up hating their jobs & the kids too. What a warm, loving environment to learn in?! The only thing the No Child Left Behind rule had me do was sign an opt-out form to keep military recruiters from harrassing my boys at school.
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