Posted on 10/21/2004 6:17:28 PM PDT by mlmr
I have had to place some of my children in the local government schools. I am keeping the school on a fairly short leash and spend more than the usual amount of time talking to school employees.
Every school employee except for the busdriver has, each time we have spoken togher, has put in a POINTED slam of the No Child Left Behind program. All of them. All the time. One employee told me that I had to provide a reason and a note when the child is missing for a day...becasue No Child Left Behind requires it. Althoug friends in other districts deny thier schools requiring any such thing. And I certainly know that this is a FEDERAL mandate since the speakers all refer to this issue.
Is this a NEA or state union push. It is very effective for on a one to one basis with all parents during the teacher meetings this year, which are mostly held before the elections, parents are being told that the present administration is screwing up their child.
Any other government school parents experiencing this???
No Child Left Behind is a bad program; I'm not surprised you're hearing teachers slam it. Federalized funding of the education system inevitably leads to problems.
Schools won't educate, they will indoctrinate, even when they get a kick in the pants. It is time to scrap government schools, period.
The school you are visiting may be under a corrective plan for excessive absences. In that case, it would be necessary under NCLB.
Good teacher accept the challenge.......others can't stand the thought of accountability.
Today, our daughter brought us a form to fill out. It said:
“The ethnic codes for the State Department of Education for [our state] have changed. If you wish to change your child’s ethnic code, please indicate this information by checking one of the boxes below.” I wrote on the form: "Can we actually do this?" We think daughter two should be Hawaiian/Pacific Islander this year. Next year, she can be Latino IF she passes her Latin I class this year.
"No child left behind"
if no child moves forward, then no other children will be left behind.
Just had to say hey to a fellow PSU grad (unless you took the name 'cause you like PSU football.
My brother's a teacher(no lib) and he doesn't have a positive opinion of NCLB. I can't remember what is biggest greviences were though.
We should bring back capital punishment. Teachers should be holding more students behind or forcing summer school on those who came close to needing to be held behind. My brother said that will never happen because teachers wouldn't want to put up with the parents.
I've heard that "No Child Left Behind" buzz around the elementary school where my kids go....its sort of like the trendy thing to cut down. Usually used in a condescending tone by what I call "bubble-headed powder puffs" that really don't know its an ACCOUNTABILITY program that requires the school to actually answer to someone other than the NEA.
I've met a number of teachers, gotten to speak politics with just a few. For the most part I find them conservative in their views, but when it comes to actually thinking they should be ....shall I actually say it..... EVALUATED for their performance they get a tiny bit indignant.
My mother-in-law, after many years of teaching elementary school, had to get a Masters degree in order to be considered "well-qualified," which is pretty stupid. But that may be that particular state's implementation of NCLB, rather than anything in the federal statute.
I'm a grad. Hello to you too!
Some teachers have only survived by the unions and not their skills and those are the teachers that "No Child Left Behind" challenges to do better or move out. My kid has those kind in his school too but I don't play games with them, I tell them how it is.
I am with you on corporal punishment in schools, Capital punishment the parents might have a problem with, though I did have some 8th graders I would have sent to the chair!
What happens when "no child" includes the special education children? THAT child will hold YOURS back.
I received a call from the office telling me since I did not choose my child's ethnic catagory that they were mandated to choose it. I said have a blast....I refuse to particpate.
PTA is a political tool of the NEA. By joining your local PTA, you are automatically sending $2.00 to the National PTA which supports all the same things as the NEA. We refuse to join, though we remain active in the school.
at the grade and middle school level, my kids have had some outstanding teachers! i cannot thank them enough.
the administrators, especially principles of my kids high school, are different. we have a significant drug problem in our high school (upper middle class to middle class). the hs principle told me that over 25% of the kids use drugs or alcohol on campus. the school has a suspension policy for drug and alcohol use. hardly any kids get suspended because, as the principle told me, "i do not want to have to go to court. i might get sued." (paraphrase)
the courts and our school system have a symbionic or, perhaps rather, a synergistic affect.
It is despicable and stupid.
When you question their sanity you get nothing but "I heard this and I heard that".
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