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no child left behind act
I was pondering this phenomenon: No child left behind… I keep finding evidence that refutes the idea that this act was passed for the greater good of all children.
I just heard on the news a day or so ago about schools being closed down and children being bussed to other schools. Over 60 teachers will be out of work. The class sizes in the schools are going from 19:1 up to 29:1. Even the children of the schools are outraged. One girl said that there will be more disruptions in class. How does a child learn with disruptions in class?
How is there no child being left behind when the schools are closing for lack of funding? The schools the kids were being sent to had no extra curricular activities. Why? Because the $17m referendum was voted down. In southern Jersey a school I used to attend has lost their brand new library and all extra curricular activities due to lack of funding. There are children being graduated that don’t know how to read or do basic math. How are they getting ahead?
The curriculum is getting harder for the younger children. They can’t even learn
the basics before they are slapped with advanced concepts. With all these kids that are “not left behind” going out into the work force with no skills and no hope of getting a good job, they are left to fend for themselves or simp off the government…the same government who swore not to leave them behind. As these kids grow, they get more violent and less active in the throws of positive society. What is left for them to do? The jails are already full of those who have been left to the dredges. Why are we throwing our children there before they even get a chance to understand what it means to be successful?
The schools are getting larger and larger. The teachers are at their wit’s end with the kids. There are children in sixth grade that still have not grapsed the concepts that were introduced in third grade. The amount of time spent in each class is not sufficient enough for each child to gain understanding of the subject before they are thrown to another subject. The time they spend in school per day is only rivaled by the amount of time parents/caregivers are spending trying to help these kids gain the knowledge they were unable to attain while in school. YES I’m talking about homework.
Even when I was in high school I took brain busting classes, spent hours after school with teachers, broke my back with a backpack full every night, just to spend more hours trying to get through a load of ho
mework assignments…most nights staying up until one or two in the morning. I was considered somewhat smart. How much more effort would it take for what is considered an average or mediocre student to understand the things that are thrown at them five days a week in school? The housing developments are becoming more and more prevalent. Each time one gets cleaned out of the vagrants, our government cultivates more vagrants to take their place.
How can we blame the children? Is it their fault that the classes were too large or underfunded to provide them a satisfactory education so they could become productive citizens?
And then I am asked WHY I am such an advocate for homeschool?
I refuse to allow my child to go through not being left behind because he was never picked up in the first place.
READ THE THOUGHTS OF A TEACHER: NCLB