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  david_nwpa5 months, 2 weeks ago

  What will our brilliant political leaders in the various state capitols do when their entire states fail to make NCLB demands. By the year 2013, all schools are supposed to make 100% compliance for all students. Each subsequent year, we have to keep maintaining perfection. We will be left with the choice of sending children to other districts. My question to Congress again is this: where will we send children when entire STATES fail to make NCLB demands? Are these kids bound for Canada? Repeal this idiotic law now!

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  Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 2 weeks ago

  This law is ludicrous! It causes far more harm than good. What I've witnessed here is schools routinely dumping kids who can't read into arts schools and tech schools simply to loose them from their responsibility. These schools before NCLB all had fine academic records. Since being used as dumping grounds now struggle to survive. They are even classifying kids as multiply-handicapped to send them to special ed schools. Uh, he wears glasses so he's visually impaired and he flipped a bird at the principal so he's emotionally disturbed. Off ya go pal. It's just bad news all around.

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  quackpot5 months, 2 weeks ago

  I wonder if the very long term overcrowding as a result of the underfunding of Baltimore schools by MD might have anything to do with the problem?

  For years, Baltimore schools have suffered from overcrowding, usually in violation of teacher's contracts. When the schools can't even fund proper class sizes, how can they possibly attempt to deal with the problems that children from poor neighborhoods encounter?

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