[gazelle1929]

Few people are aware of the true tragedy that is represented by the No Child Left Behind law. It was actually the result of a simple terrible typographical error.

I can hear you asking, "How can that be?"

Once upon a time, young Georgie Bush was sent to a private school where there was a strong belief in corporal punishment. Georgie was not immune, even though his father was a minister to the good King Richard, and Georgie basically got the crap beat out of him pretty much every week. He vowed that when he became king he would pass a law to cut down by fifty percent the amount of pain that could be inflicted on any child.

And lo, Georgie did become King, and Georgie told his minions, "Write me a law to accomplish this." And his minions thought and they thought. And what they came up with was a law that would allow paddling of a child on only the right buttock. They figured this would cut down the pain by one half. But a lowly scribe in the White Castle choked on a Slyder while she was typing up the name of the law, and it went to the legislators as No Child Left Behind instead of the intended name No Child's Left Behind. And for the remaining seven years of Georgie's reign there was a little S running around the White Castle causing nothing but trouble.