Schools

I am watching a program in which the host has fifty studio guests, probably all of them teachers. I missed the first 10 minutes so I can't tell you, but they're commenting as if they are insiders.

This one refers to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) as a problem because it means that every classroom is forced to slow down to the speed of the slowest child. One lazy kid who refuses to learn and the whole classroom of children who might otherwise have wished to learn are forced not to.

Sorry guys but this is nothing new. We had this in public schools in the Sixties. It was so important to them to keep every child in the same "social development bracket" (my term for whatever their miserable thinking was) and not to let any child suffer the consequences of his laziness.

NCLB may be a joke (it's not a horror unless you can blame Bush for it, regardless of the fact that Teddy Kennedy and his staff are the ones who wrote it) but it isn't a new joks. My thoughts on it? That at least the kids were getting tested once every few years, which was generally a step up from never getting tested at all, which had been the norm for the prior thirty decades.