[butterdezillion]

That’s the complaint that teachers have about “No Child Left Behind”. Whenever you try to force accountability you end up with lots of statistics, and keeping track of the statistics can actually hinder the mission you’re after.

I know that statistics drive the money. If you want to prove that you’re doing something so you can get funding you’ve got to drive up the numbers. Do you think the push for more (and higher) numbers comes from accountability measures, or from government requirements, or something else?

[badbass]

I honestly have no idea. It seems to be coming from business management schools, imo. Common sense seems to have gone out the window, people are just supposed to accept and "get used to" this crap, not question whatever authority is thrusting it upon them. It's reason number 1 why I work for myself now. I just can't swallow it anymore.

I find it hard to believe that Americans will ever get great accountability from their goverment, because the great majority are complicit in some form of the same crap on their own jobs. I hope I'm wrong though.