I think I'm going to throw up.
I wonder if these school administrators ever graduated from elementary school themselves?
Why do I doubt that this was what the president had in mind...?
By the same logic they should give all kids A's in every subject...doing anything else might hurt their self-esteem.
Main reason to homeschool. Idiots are in charge of public education. Not saying they all are, just that many of them are, and anyone who reads this or the article the other day about the two boys being arrested for drawing stick figures can come to their own conclusions.
Better cancel all sports, music, plays, and tests to name a few. Heck, just shut down all the public schools.
We're doomed.
what a bunch of nut balls
Stupid, stupid Democrat NEA brain dead teachers. My brother WAS a principal and he thought this very thing. He's a great guy but is so gullible he really believed it.
No Child Left Behind = No Competition in life = Socialism
Not quite the Plan that American Patriots were wanting for our country but quite in line with the Homeland line of thinking.
Next, they plan to eliminate all recesses and blame that on the "No Child Left Behind" program.
What's next? All kids will be given 'A's in school because they can't leave anyone behind?
Next we'll here how John Kerry has a plan to restart spelling bees.
IMO, the schools today are not teaching children how to deal with not always being the "winner". You must learn how to be a gracious loser. One can not always win, be picked first at a recess game, be included in every "popular" group, etc. It is this lack of teaching that contributes to horrible tragedies at schools and, later in life, at workplaces.
These are the idiots in charge of educating children???????????
Huh, I thought it was about all the children competing. You know, like a race, where only one kid wins, but every kid is healthier because they ran the race.
If brains were dynamite, these people wouldn't have enough to blow their nose.
Liberal leftist thinking. Sounds like a bunch of demoncRATS found a way to make news with their political correctness gone amuck.
This is such crap. The point that "it's not always the straight-A student" who wins is a valid one.
Different kids are good at different things. Sometimes the kid who isn't good at most things really shines in a particular area. By eliminating competition, we make sure that the kid with a unique talent will never get any recognition.
When I was a kid, I was one of the ones who was picked for teams last, or close to last. Except when we had "college bowl" type events in Junior high social studies class. These were usually one class against the other, twenty kids on a side, where the teacher would ask curriculum related questions. My class always won these events, because I was usually the first one with an answer to about a quarter to a third of the questions, and I was usually correct.
I can remember one time getting off to an unusually bad start, and kids who never would have picked me for a sports team were complaining that I wasn't carrying the team. To my relief and theirs I hit my stride about half way through, and we won that day, too.
No competition means some kids are never going to have a chance to show what they are good at. How does that help self-esteem?
I think maybe we should consider "no teacher left behind".
These teachers and administrators are obviously digging in their heels to try and defeat the president's initiative. I remember when Reagan was confronted by such a revolt in the air traffic controllers union he just fired them all and it solved the whole problem. Now Bush can't fire elementary school principals but he might be able to cut off federal funding to asinine school districts.