Comments on: State supe unveils algebra plan

By: Fremont Parent

Fremont Parent — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:59:56 +0000

NCLB has been a complete and utter disaster, there is question about it. Any future without NCLB is a brighter one!

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:51:44 +0000

Jon, I’m ambivalent, and can live with or without the No Child Left Behind Act. I do understand the act’s shortcomings. But I wont allow teachers -present, on leave or retired- claim that California’s education system was on a path other than one of dismal failure before 2001. NCLB may have masked the problem, or accelerated the decline. You pick. But one thing if for sure, and that is our public school problems are far more complex than an ignorant “sound bite”.

By: Jon Simon

Jon Simon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:29:40 +0000

From my experience, NCLB has eviscerated our schools. The focus is on readying the unready for state tests instead of teaching what kids are ready for. Things are so awful, I’m strongly considering homeschooling.

And the message was conceived, optimized(?), and marketed(?) by me.

By: marty

marty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:12:51 +0000

That sound bite was conceived, optimized and marketed by our own California teachers unions. And we are all aware of the stellar job California was doing before No Child Left Behind.

By: Jon Simon

Jon Simon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:30:39 +0000

This top-down, one-size-fits-all management by politicians completely ignorant of pedagogy has completely ruined our schools. When they start listening to the teachers then maybe we’ll get somewhere, but by then all the good ones will have quit or taken early retirement to escape the insanity.

This penalizes the struggling kids who are not ready for algebra, and the advanced ones who get bored and ignored.

In a sound bite: No Child Left Behind and its supporters are leaving all children behind.