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Has No Child Left Behind Improved Public Education?

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  • by PrincessErin1986 on March 22nd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    PrincessErin1986

    I was in high school when this was implemented. And no. In my experience it slowed down the learning for the more advanced students, so we learned a lot less and always had to stop. Secondly, it made the struggles harder on the less advanced students. So really no, I think it has created a burden on students in general.

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  • by Siyanor on March 22nd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Siyanor

    "One Size Doesn't Fit All" doesn't even cover it. This was a horrible idea, in goals and in practice. I suppose it helped educate some people, since so many Republicans switched over to Democrat after this.

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  • by gardengirl10 on January 10th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    gardengirl10

    I hate it. My son's school teaches for the tests and tries to cover too many areas at once, particularly in math. They don't have time to teach the basics before moving on to something that is more advanced than his grade level. Even the teachers tell me they hate it.

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  • by anonymous on January 10th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    anonymous

    i think NCLB is just a horrible idea that ruins the proper efficient way of schooling. we're always competing to be the smartest or something. not everyone works the same.

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  • by A on January 10th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    A

    It just doesn't.

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  • by Stormarm on September 5th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Stormarm

    It ought to be called "No child gets ahead!"

    That or "Improve your school's performance rating by dumping all sub-performers into punitive BD/LD programs outside the school."

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  • by MrParanoidLoko on August 7th, 2010

    MrParanoidLoko

    Everyone deserves a 2nd chance. Im a mexican so there is no suprise I had to retake 2 of my final tests, but without it there would be an overwelming amount of drop uts and failures! I mean I was suprised of the ammount of white and asians that where there in the retake day. According to my teacher, everyone had to make at least a 45% efficientcy witch is an "F" and less then half and people still failed even with a 18 point curve witch means everyone there scored less then a 22! Imagine the mayhem of not having that act!

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  • by ellesheen on June 7th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    ellesheen

    If they are not smart to learn the leasons then they should be held back and let the children who are smart enough continue to learn.

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  • by DurableGunny on July 10th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    DurableGunny

    It was a good idea but how it was used was horrible. one size doesn't fit all is true, but also if a school fails they cut funding back from them what is that oh you failed no you get less money to help you students.

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  • by GLUT on March 28th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    GLUT

    No child left behind has made public education
    worse for a child that has a learning disability.

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  • by FanoBliv on March 26th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    FanoBliv

    No. I'm tired of getting dragged down by the kids who are too lazy to get off their ass and learn.

    Exclud. The mentally retarded and the ones with other mental problems.

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  • by AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao! on March 25th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    AB is an asylum run by the inmates, ciao!

    No Child Left Behind means that No Child Gets Ahead.
    NCLB causes the systems to dumb itself down to the lowest common denominator.

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  • by The BoomHound on March 24th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    The BoomHound

    Its hard not to walk down the street these days with out running into a genius every couple a feet

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  • by thatsJustme on March 23rd, 2010
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    thatsJustme

    yes....just many kids wont take the chance...and many parents won't help them to either....

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  • by LePoupon is a proper gander. on March 23rd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    LePoupon is a proper gander.

    What is with that kid in the picture?
    Everyone else is busy getting on with their work and there he is sitting grinning at us like we're offering him sweets to get in our van.
    Not that I'd know what that look looks like, I've never done that, honest. But seriously the kids scaring me now.

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  • by MrJosh on March 23rd, 2010

    MrJosh

    I agree with both options, but I do not agree with NCLB.

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  • by Rinky Dinky Do on March 22nd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Rinky Dinky Do

    Have you asked yourself why is our children not learning?

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  • by -O-uknow on March 22nd, 2010

    -O-uknow

    Quality often suffers when quantity becomes the focus.

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  • by jess13 on July 7th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    jess13

    I understand that every child deserves a chance, but my step brother is currently being "left behind" due to this. The school district he is in has placed him in LD casses and continue to pass him every year even though he is clearly struggling to complete the work they give him. Now he is going into the fifth grade and can not even read. But the school will not hold him back because they feel as long as he is in LD classes and getting adequate grades that he should continue to move on.

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  • by popcorn on October 21st, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    popcorn

    Teachers only honestly give a shit about getting kids to pass these standardized tests instead of actually gaining knowledge.

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  • by thatsJustme on September 28th, 2010
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    thatsJustme

    not really, but it isn't Bush's fault........although this helped many, it also held alot of students from going forward.........but what to do ? whats Obama gonna do , penalize some students and promote the others regardless ? either way you go..because the standards cannot be 'politically correct' .......somebody 'gets left or has to stay behind'.......yes, it did help...it has put lots more emphasize on READING, learning to read, parents having to be more responsible in taking part rather than one getting to Sr. year and realizing THEY CANNOT READ !!!! so yes, it has done alot of good........I can't wait to see what 'bright' idea Obama comes up with...

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  • by ConservativelyLiberal on September 28th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    ConservativelyLiberal

    This is what happens when you spend $15 on the military for every $1 you spend on educating your children. Republican values at their finest.

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  • by Hope Diamond on June 6th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Hope Diamond

    I think that children should not go forward if they have not been able to show that they know the subjects. What would that show to children of society present and furture when they go to college or in a job environment? Would they feel a sense of intitledment to go forward without working? Just a thought.

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  • by Topher on September 28th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Topher

    While we may not be leaving children behind, we are leaving education behind... Log gone are the days of latin roots, debate, and memorization & recitation of the mulptiplication tables... Now what do the teachers do? Test, then test again, then they teach to test, then test again, then they get to go over the material that they should have taught before the students were tested on it... And because of that the students score lower, and the parents/teachers/students feel discouraged, because right and left we take away any possiblity of challenge and just tell them you are below average go to that class... I believe, as does anyone else who ever struggled with a class, challenges is what make us better... Not grouping all the dumb kids together... And that is what No Child Left Behind has done... It dosen't allow the teachers to teach education, and it dosen't allow students to develop a desire to succeed...

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  • by Paula Jean Bieber on November 1st, 2010
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    Paula Jean Bieber

    i believe i thas added to our education... i am a junior and it has gotten better since they started that

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  • by kittenbritches on February 14th, 2011
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    kittenbritches

    I don't think that the no child left behind program has worked all that well. There are still people graduating from high school who can barely read and write. Too many teacher are passing kids on to the next grade just to get rid of them and that is as bad if not worse than leaving them behind.

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  • by Bloodrose on February 15th, 2011
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Bloodrose

    No child left behind = No child gets ahead... What about the smarter kids who are ahead of their peers due to their work ethic or higher IQ? This system seems to penalize them when they don't do their work when they're bored because it's stuff they already know... I should know, I was one of those kids... Graduated in '09... Grades were hell because of this...

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  • by tammom on March 3rd, 2011
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    tammom

    When teachers get tired of teaching the little ones they can slip through the cracks and are often over looked and its the start of disaster for the child.My daughter goes to school where for two years the school did not meet the guidelines on their t-cap scores. She is an advanced student and was given te opportunity to be bussed to another school of choice that had kept good scores,all the children were given opportunity to change. The letter they sent had the other schools test scores on paper for us to compare to.When they thought they would loose their funding or grant money they pulled the scores back up,showing that it can be done if the fire under their rear gets hot enough.Hey Iv had 3 children go through this school for 15 yrs and Iv watched a lazy principal cause a school to slip thru the cracks a whole school. Trust me our kids are learning more and have more rights with no child left behind,atleast this is my own personal experience!

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  • by alex122333 on March 19th, 2011

    alex122333

    The government has no business running schools.

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  • by KayyB94 on March 19th, 2011
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    KayyB94

    DEFINITELY NOT! The way I see it, every child gets left behind because the curriculum isnt well taught, like math at my school... 80% of the school is failing. Or those few students that dont care to learn and just are at school to be there!

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  • by JUJU on June 6th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    JUJU

    if they are not ready hold them back.They shuoldnt get a better education then a really smart person!Thats crazy!If they have a disability then put them in spaecial ed.

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  • by kittenbritches on February 14th, 2011
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    kittenbritches

    Share your answer...

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  • by Druidic on December 28th, 2010

    Druidic

    For the first time somebody came up with a solution other than just throwing money at the problem.

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  • by vetlover21 on February 5th, 2011
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    vetlover21

    Yes every kid does deserve a chance to learn but it doesn't mean that everyone should have to wait for them to get serious about it. school is divided in to three major groups. those who want to learn and can and try, those who have a harder time but can and need to try harder and those who sit there and waste our valuable time and won't get serious until the senior year in highschool and they relize thier flipping burgers for the reast of thier lives. the school system need to change and didvide kids in to classes bettr suited for them. along with this if a kid is transfered and theier old school says they qualify forsomething athe new school should put them where they qulified and let them fail out because it's to high than out them in a lower class where they can't learn because thier bored and thier class won't cooperate. i know this because i go to publice school

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  • by jwar0125 on February 12th, 2011
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    jwar0125

    Some people don't even belong in school.

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  • by Jeff_S4825 on December 2nd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Jeff_S4825

    No child left behind is holding my children back. The teachers are more concerned with not hurting someones feelings than teaching. If you want to improve education in this country stop cutting the budgets of the schools!!!! Get our kids out of foreign countries that don't want us there and use the money to fund education in this country!

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  • by Seatwilight on April 26th, 2010
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    Seatwilight

    Gosh man, the whole no child left behind act needs to come to freaken VA spots. If this place was really special then why are there some many high school drop outs? Why isn't there more study in stuff like : Manners, Money issues, and maybe even politics. Shoot if schools did that we would not need this stupid no child left behind rule of thumb. >_

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  • by Anonymous on March 27th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Anonymous

    It sucks. I remember when it was implemented when I was in high-school. It slowed everything down. We would spend days going over simple information. The smarter students were disregarded in favor of the dumb ones.

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  • by extremewirehead on March 27th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    extremewirehead

    Standardized test is the same as asking a robot to outperform one another, that is not how a child should be viewed as when testing

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  • by Audrey1969 on March 27th, 2010

    Audrey1969

    I hate this system. Kids are automatically passed to next grade even if they have not mastered the skills needed to go forward. Parents opinions do not matter.

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  • by muffinsrequired on March 28th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    muffinsrequired

    Half the children whose grades are suffering is due to their inattention at school because of all the toys and technological advances in society. If we stopped making glittery markers and crayons and cute little erasers, then maybe kids can start paying attention. It's also the parents' fault for giving their children so many things to play with. If the parents are doing their job and the kids won't pay attention and do their dam homework then it's there fault. Too bad but kids deserve to get left back if they can't make it.

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  • by Werewolf87 on March 26th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Werewolf87

    If education is to truely be imporoved, every school should be given the needed amount of $$$ so they can afford prfessionaly qulified teachers who love/teach what they're best at, updated equipment, curiculum(books), real food, ect, for the students.

    An under-funded school = The worst education

    A well-funded school = The best education

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  • by momlady on March 26th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    momlady

    As a teacher I have seen the bureaucratic mess it has caused. All it has accomplished is to cover teachers and admministrators with paperwork and added stress. Even the students hate it. I teach high school history. Are we there to "educate or graduate"?

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  • by Anonymous on March 23rd, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Anonymous

    My teacher always insists we cover 2-3 20 page chapters in our math textbook for every test. I keep failing cause it's WAAAY to hard to speed everything up and do it all at once. While I'm complaining, I may as well present the fact that "Has No Child Left Behind improved public education?" is a yes or no question. "Every child deserves a chance," and "One size doesn't fit all" are not really applicable to answering this question/debate.

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  • by Anonymous on March 24th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Anonymous

    All NCLB does is force teachers to give lessons based on crappy standardized tests that do not properly measure intelligence and do not encourage higher-order thinking.

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  • by Gingerminx on March 25th, 2010

    Gingerminx

    It hasn't made one bit of difference to New Zealand education.

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  • by Anonymous on March 25th, 2010
    voted: One Size Doesn't Fit All

    Anonymous

    While some aspects of this act have improved education, other aspects have degraded it by the same measure. While it is important to have quality education available to all kids regardless of ethnicity, or school district funding capabilities, the fact that some kids that should retake a grade can't, harms their chances of understanding the curriculum before being forced to move along to more complicated education along with their peers. So While it has a lot of good points, the bad points (while few) are so profound that they overshadow the good and the results is a wash.

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  • by frandaddy on March 29th, 2010
    voted: Every Child Deserves a Chance

    frandaddy

    I think that the unionization of education has been terrible for our children. In all other industries people get hired and fired for their on the job performance however in government and in unions we have essentially took away the incentives and consequences of performance. It is for this purpose no matter how much money we pump into schools we won't see the results we would expect. If we are to play to the unions and still demand a standard level of excellence we need a way to determine whether or not our children are reaching that standard and if they aren't we need to know who is failing them. I feel sorry for the teachers who despite their best efforts can't make up for all the shortcomings of their student's past educational experience. I also think the financial compensation for teaching at our public schools is the cause for some of our best teaching talent seeking work elsewhere. I combine my frustration for educated parents who feel it is solely the school's responsibility to teach their children, a good education requires parents to step it up and take a proactive approach to their children's education. No child left behind is the best we as a country can do if we are to not offer incentives and consequences to teachers.

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  • by Donut89 on April 6th, 2010

    Donut89

    No child left is dismantling my alma mater through the systematic pissing off of every great teacher in my old school causing them to opt out and teach at private schools for lower wages

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  • by jedsimon on May 12th, 2010

    jedsimon

    What this policy sets forth is the threat of teacher's jobs. The teacher's feel that they have to pass these children. If they do not pass and have to many children fail, whether deliberately or otherwise, they feel that they will lose their job, which is true, and the possiblity of the school closing down. If a teacher looses their job because a kid does not have the drive to learn, then this will follow the teacher where ever he/she goes and will not be able to find a job. Then this will affect how many good teachers we have left.

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