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Before NCLB the government sent millions to the schools with no regrad to outcome. For the first time schools have been CLOSED due to poor teaching programs and bad leaders. Is that not what conservatives are for? Charter schools exist because of NCLB - how is that bad?

Before NCLB the government sent millions to the schools with no regrad to outcome. For the first time schools have been CLOSED due to poor teaching programs and bad leaders. Is that not what conservatives are for? Charter schools exist because of NCLB - how is that bad?

First, George W Bush is not exactly a Conservative, nor was his buddy Teddy Kennedy who helped get it to pass in Congress, and we can't forget John Boehner either since he helped it in the House.

Regardless of that, schools and teachers should be the responsibility of the local school districts and the local taxpayers, not bureaucrats in Washington. Just because there are districts where parents and taxpayers don't step up and take responsibility doesn't mean we should invite the federal government into all of the classrooms across the country.

Thanks to NCLB we are cranking out a generation of test takers. I supposed that's good if you want kids to work the counter at McDonald's, but teaching to the test will hurt this country in the long run.

You can be a cheerleader for all you want, but don't come crying when some future version of Obama uses NCLB in a way you don't like.

Before NCLB the government sent millions to the schools with no regrad to outcome.

By the way, those "millions" were not the property of the federal government to begin with, and they should never have left local districts and states, because those "millions" are what you and I call taxpayer money. You know, taxpayers, me and you, that ever-shrinking soon-to-be minority of folks in this country.

We should not be sending money we need for our local districts to Washington, because that gives Washington the chance to dictate how we spend it, if we even get most of it back.