When George Bush became the governor of Texas, it was ranked, if I remember correctly, seventh in the nation in education. After he left Texas for the White House, Texas was ranked 48th or 49th in the nation.
Let that sink in for a moment: From 7th to 48th in less than seven years because of the (N)o (C)hild (L)eft (B)ehind law, and within the first six months in the White House he and his corporate cronies in the education business decided to implement this useless law to the entire country.
The provisions that are the worst of the law are: the flat standard across the board and that the military is to be allowed to enter all highschools undetered across the nation.
The NCLB law testing standard is a joke. It is creating nothing more than a new generation of test takers instead of critical thinkers. My take on this is that since private schools are not subject to this law, I firmly believe that it is intended to create a new group of potential slaves for the rich elite to rule over. In its current form this is what is happening and there is little doubt to it.
The fact that the military is allowed in our highschools has to be the biggest insult to public schools and We the People since personhood was allowed to be stolen by corporations back in 1886. My daughter was aproached by a recruiter, my daughter tried to walk away wothout bothering to listen, she knows the score, but the recruiter practically would not let her walk away until she listened to his speech. It took a friend of hers to yell out her name to get her away.
In my daughter's school the students have to wear their ID's on their neck, so this recruiter was able to take her name down. I know this because within a week she bagan to recieve mailers in the mail from the Army and the Nat'l Guard.
I think that the reason this provision was put into the NCLB law was simply because the Bush administration knows perfectly well that if they were to attempt to implement the draft, the illegal occupation of Iraq would end the next day! So to force a back door draft on our nation, these people added this provision. Lets face it, in a public school, you have many children being inticed by upwards of $40,000 signing bonuses to join or face a battle for that minimum wage job at McDonalds.
It is time to either rework it by removing many of its more vile provisions or rid ourselves of this dispicable law and toss it away into the dust bin of history.
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