..........politics and public education.

Here's a picture I found of the guy that suggested the No Child Left Behind Act to President Bush; and went further to say that the states and the local govenrnments should have no problem funding the program. The No Child Left Behind Act is a massive "CF" that has slowed down the education process and cost millions of dollars just to get the paperwork right in some file cabinet. The law had no room for good, solid, proven teachers who are actually teaching a subject out of field to be "grandfathered" into the system. The result - we lost many teachers who had over 25 years experience because they were going to have to return to school or spend many hours in seminars on how to pass the praxis exams. I would expect nothing less from the government and their trust of the education system. My suggestion - solve the problems of poor performing teachers in the classrooms with sniper fire instead of with a nuclear (excuse me, newclear) blast pattern. Everyone did not need the extra hurdles to jump in order to have students perform. If there is a poor educator in the classroom at any time, it is the result of poor administration who allowed them to stay there in the first place. Blanket policies hardly ever work, and in the case of No Child Left Behind, the policy has been a total failure. Remember, all public education is bad. None of the educators care, and surely none of them know what they are doing. Oh, and the pay is great, too!!!