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My thoughts on No Child Left Behind. It had it's good points but also it's bad. While the child was not left behind in the same grade while the others advanced, that child was not able to "catch up" because he or she was still in a lower reading level. Because they were in the lower reading level they could not comprehend the classwork as easily as the others thus making it extremely difficult to achieve good grades. So, in essence, they were still behind but in the same grade as their friends. I think this is unfair to the child even though a child, as well as the parents, do not want to see the child retained, sometimes it helps, instead of hinders, a child's educational development.

I have only taught in a public school so I can only relate to you about the public school system. Where I work the #1 priority is the child's education and their success. If they need tutors to help them "catch up" with their peers it is offered to them. The teachers seek ways to find the best teaching method to help a child comprehend and learn what they need to know.

The government does not have full control over the schools (at least not yet). But the educational department which is a government program does dictate what is learned through frameworks they have created. The only thing that bothers me is the yearly standards (accountability) test otherwise known as the "benchmarks" that is given to all students to supposedly measure what they are learning against other students across the nation. So much of the teacher's time is directed towards making sure their children can pass this "test" that other subjects tend to be pushed to the side.

a; have

b; yes

neither

c; only that a minimum # of classes are taught, aside from those, a principle can direct any

teacher to teach any class.

we have to have a learned common bond!