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I agree with you 1000%.

My wife is a public high school teacher (science), as is her father (history), brother (math) and sister-in-law (math). Her mother is an elementary school teacher. My wife also serves on the Board of Education in the city we live in (she teaches in a neighboring district, obviously).

While they are a family of staunch Conservatives, the NCLB law has prevented them from teaching the curriculum they want to teach. Instead they have to teach to a test that the federal government mandates they administer. Half of the information in the test is of no relevance to anything, and half of the things they might really need to know to succeed in the future is omitted.

How is this helpful to anyone?

You touched on one of the problems with our local school boards.

Many local school board members are people who teach in other school districts and are NEA members.

The boards don't represent parents-taxpayers who believe in fiscal responsibility and solid education but teachers-union members who think they may need more money, spending and political correctness to make education "better."

What irks me the most is that teacher-union school board members vote on teacher contracts that determine pay and benefits for fellow teacher-union members. What a conflict of interest?

And by the way, "staunch conservative" is liberal speak. Sounds like something the drive-by media would say.

I'm a real conservative. I don't push the liberal NEA agenda of your family members.