Muscatine

Now you went and did it.

I did not quit or lose it. Yesum, Mr. Bush did a bad thing by our educational system, but I retired after more than 28 yrs of honorable service to our young minds. I had no failures as such and did the best anyone could do while drilling the numbers goods into those sponge brains. In FACT snarty pants, our average could have been the bar for his ridiculous plan. Talk about the blame game. Absolutely, he didn't have a clue as to how that scam was going to harm our schools and children. You can talk trash about most things, but this is sad sir just sad. Ask any teacher you wish, NCLB was a bad plan, and he signed it well after I retired by the way.

The teachers aren't the ones we should ask.  We should ask the students and parents.

How's that effort working out there?

I asked some parents and students yesterday and today. They said it was a bad deal. Standards are set by others well above teachers pay grade and the teachers are left holding the bag for the lack of many parenting issues and socioeconomic problems in our society. All the while legislators spin the wheel dropping high percentages out the door leaving our educational system full of holes and dark rooms with ever increasing fees to get a solid education. It's easy to blame the foot soldiers trying to lead our young minds with less funding, and worse still, less discipline and desire by our children. Yes Mr Bush was a genius. 

'I asked some parents and students yesterday and today."

Sure you did....

At least G. W. Bush tried to improve things.  That's more than the teacher's union beholding democrats have ever done.

In spite of that, improving the education system is a job strictly for the states, not the federal government.  So I did not agree with the idea in principal, when it was passed and signed.

  But most sane citizens have beeen, and still are, frustrated with how the teachers' unions have the states in a headlock.  That frustration, and the vision of our children going down the drain, prompted Bush and others to act.  The lessons learned from observing the results of NCLB, should be appled now by the individual states to design their own continuous improvement systems and implement them.  I think we are seeing this happen in isolated states around the nation.

And don't forget, that NCLB wasn't entirely Bush's idea.  Ted  Kennedy co-sponsored it and actually negotiated the final draft with Bush.  It had to pass the House and Senate, didn't it?

"The legislation was proposed by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH). The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on May 23, 2001 (voting 384–45),^[7] and the United States Senate passed it on June 14, 2001 (voting 91–8).^[8] President Bush signed it into law on January 8, 2002."