[EEGator]

Understood. I don’t have children, so I never knew its true issues.

[Leaning Right]

Since I’m in the mood for rambling, here’s how Bush’s No Child Left Behind worked (in brief).

NCLB tested for math and English, only. Schools with good NCLB scores were rewarded, and their principals got bonuses. Schools with poor NCLB scores were branded as failures, and their principals got fired.

So here’s what most principals did. They cut their trades programs, and shoved those kids into advanced math and english classes. All to try to increase the NCLB scores by a few percentage points.

So you had kids who wanted to be carpenters or electricians instead trying to decipher what some piece of poetry meant.

Unfortunately this country doesn’t need more poets. We need more carpenters and electricians.