"No Child Left Behind"????????

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Meanwhile, the even more mischievous Big S was at a secure undisclosed location.

I wonder if Georgie got the right-buttock-only idea when he was merrily branding pledges at Yale with a hot coat hanger.

Ah, college daze!

John

I know several teachers who would be smiling at this thread.

Even though my sons took honors level courses in high school, and attended a well-regarded school district, my older son found that he was not prepared to tackle college level math at the university. Part of the problem might have been taking honors Calculus II in his first semester, but he just wasn't prepared to deal with something that really challenged him. The high school classes weren't challenging, because they had to be aimed at the lowest common denominator. NCLB also means no child pushed forward. I know parents are supposed to take responsibility in their children's education, and we did, but I couldn't give him more challenging work in math, because he passed my math background his sophmore year in high school.

Regards,

D-Ray

[BlueStreak]

"Not surprisingly, the slide downhill began under Gov. Reagan. He began the systematic underfunding of schools here for nakedly ideological reasons.
St. Ronnie!

John"


The ignorant are more easily controlled?

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Not surprisingly, the slide downhill began under Gov. Reagan.

Around here, folks are responsible for their own schools.

Pete

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Around here, folks are responsible for their own schools.

Pete

If they did who would they blame ???

[noonereal]

Part of the no child left behind act was to give the military access to the names ages and addresses of all the students at every school that accepts money from this program. (BTW most all public schools do)
The schools must notify the patents each year of this. The parent then has the option to submit a letter to the school to withhold their child's name if they so wish. So every year I have to type up a new letter (this has been going on since the sixth grade) and submit it to the principle to keep my daughter off the school submitted list. (since she was 11!)

So in spite of this royal pain in the ass every year last week, (as a Christmas present I guess) she received a recruitment letter from the navy.
I wrote refused on it and placed it back in the mail. Now I am gonna write the principle and ask why he screwed up. I anticipate that it is already to late to correct this and as usual in our sociaty no one will face any sections for not doing their job.

Besides it being very frustrating I fail to see why the military needs access to kids so frigin young. I don't think they should be allowed to talk to them until they are 18. I m responsible for my kids till then, speak to me.

Before someone starts, I favor universal service for two years. It is just not appropriate for this legislation to have had this recruitment clause.

[BlueStreak]

Because there are people among us who want to turn America into a Theocratic- Militarist state?

[piece-itpete]

That's me!

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Move to Iran.

[piece-itpete]

I would fight alongside the Greens, yep yep yep.

National security is pretty important. We've been so strong for so long it's easy to forget how important it is.

Pete

[merrylander]

Can't for the life of me understand why all the wing-nuts are getting on Obama's case over security, Teddy Roosevelt was the last Republican to ever win a war.