I wish, as you know, that they would do away with the law altogether. I don’t mind being held accountable for anything, but I do mind being held accountable for children who come to the high schools with absolutely no prior knowledge.
To wit: today, I was teaching a poem and asked the students the significance of the Euphrates river. (Cricket chirp)
Anyway, the Bush administration has made its name on this law and I would like to see it repealed.
I agree. It’s a bad law. It’s made things worse at public schools (at least the ones my kids have attended).
It’s not the only thing wrong with public schools, and the law did not affect why we stopped sending my kids to public school. However, it just made their time in public school more unpleasant.
I also feel sorry for good teachers that get stuck with illegal immigrant children who can’t speak English and are supposed to teach them in a short amount of time.