What part of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND do we keep?
By
gustave776
on January 10, 2009 at 07:38 am
No Child Left Behind, In my opinion:
This program was designed to keep teachers accountable in their positions. Last time I checked, the objective of a teacher is to teach our children the skills and knowledge needed to advance in our society as we know it today. This either prepares them for furthering their education in a Higher Ed. setting or to guide others to a vocation they can excel in and be a professional in their own right.
Today our educators have been lured away from this objective little by little by a labor union disguised as a professional association which has brainwashed the followers and made it hard for our leaders to continue to achieve this educational objective of teaching our children.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a program instilled by the Bush Administration and has forced the Teachers of our children to be more accountable for teaching each and every one of our students. This has created a paper flurry of documentation our teachers need to provide to the Dept. of Education to prove each child is being taught and is progressing to the best of their ability. By testing each student, this provides data telling the needs of each student and this has been portrayed as a bad thing by our not so progressive teachers in the system. Ideally this is a great program, but logistically this program is a failure.
Like in much of our industries in America, the labor unions have over stepped their bounds and have led our workers away from the basic objectives of their job. This is the same for our teachers union (NEA). They have become bold in strong arming their members and making examples of the non-members to force them to conform to their liberal ways.
People are like sheep and like to follow strong leaders and these unions are strong with an agenda that is leading our teachers farther and farther from the objectives they trained for.
In my opinion, by tweaking the problems of being short handed in the classroom and providing help to the teachers by lowering case loads so the teacher can do a good job with each of their students and not become overwhelmed by writing progress reports, I think this program can be salvaged.
This program was designed to keep teachers accountable in their positions. Last time I checked, the objective of a teacher is to teach our children the skills and knowledge needed to advance in our society as we know it today. This either prepares them for furthering their education in a Higher Ed. setting or to guide others to a vocation they can excel in and be a professional in their own right.
Today our educators have been lured away from this objective little by little by a labor union disguised as a professional association which has brainwashed the followers and made it hard for our leaders to continue to achieve this educational objective of teaching our children.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a program instilled by the Bush Administration and has forced the Teachers of our children to be more accountable for teaching each and every one of our students. This has created a paper flurry of documentation our teachers need to provide to the Dept. of Education to prove each child is being taught and is progressing to the best of their ability. By testing each student, this provides data telling the needs of each student and this has been portrayed as a bad thing by our not so progressive teachers in the system. Ideally this is a great program, but logistically this program is a failure.
Like in much of our industries in America, the labor unions have over stepped their bounds and have led our workers away from the basic objectives of their job. This is the same for our teachers union (NEA). They have become bold in strong arming their members and making examples of the non-members to force them to conform to their liberal ways.
People are like sheep and like to follow strong leaders and these unions are strong with an agenda that is leading our teachers farther and farther from the objectives they trained for.
In my opinion, by tweaking the problems of being short handed in the classroom and providing help to the teachers by lowering case loads so the teacher can do a good job with each of their students and not become overwhelmed by writing progress reports, I think this program can be salvaged.
