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Testing companies really benefit.

My brother taught ESL. Last year, a kid came off the plane from China who couldn't speak a word of English and my brother had to give him the test a week later.

There is some woman from the fed ed department who was interviewed and claimed that Down's Syndrome kids will be held to the same "high" standard as normal kids.

Meanwhile, schools which don't want to be labeled "persistently dangerous" and really are fudge their statistics or, in the case of NYC, a girl can be raped in a stairwell, but unless the perp held a gun to her head, the school isn't considered "persistently dangerous."

Kids are told they can leave failing schools, but if they are in a failing district, where do they go? Other public schools aren't required to take them.

No Child Left Behind isn't what it's cracked up to be.