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TWELVE YEARS? For No Child Left Behind? After thirty years of dumbing down, another twelve will ensure that NO ONE WILL know just how stupid we are. That's more than a generation of how to be stupid in one easy lesson.

"No Child Left Behind" concerns itself exclusively with ensuring that the lowest-performing students meet minimal standards. It does not concern itself with raising the average, nor with ensuring that top-performing students achieve their full potential. The net result will be that most school resources will be focused on the bottom 10%, and the top 10% will be ignored

When you consider that it's the top 10% who will need to create the new companies and industries, develop all new inventions and technological advancement, and supply all the professionals that keep the country running

I fear for the future of the US.

My #3 son is IB program in HS. They are essentially separated from the "common rabble"; (being given a higher level of teachers(?) than the others, not to mention a separate classroom/hall environment). OTOH, he is NJROTC; believes Captain is the end all and be all. He does get the top teachers (as they are), and they are segregated as a group. WHOOPS! Guess high schools can do what they wish when it comes to test score mandates. Got to have those high achievers keep the funding going. PS. His HS segregates by ability (Blacks/minorities are maybe 1%). But the rich druggies still hate the NJROTC. This smells like a discrimination case! If you are rich, and smoke dope you should get good grades!! It's a govt mandate!!