Real life stories from No Child Left Behind

[MGKrebs]

I don't even have any kids, and this stuff upsets me.

"No Child Left Behind requires school systems to transport children to their new school -- and that's a challenge in long, gridlock-plagued Fulton County."

"For the Adams boys, it meant getting on a school bus at 5:30 a.m. and transferring to another bus in Roswell that took the students to Northwestern. The bus ride home often took longer because of traffic. One night the boys got home after 7:30 p.m., Eric Adams said. So their parents started driving them."

So for parents who don't have the option to drive their kids to school, they're supposed to drop their kids at the bus stop at 5:30 AM? And get them home at 7:30?

"When Conyers Middle School in Rockdale made the "needs improvement" list, the transfer requests poured in. Nearly 100 students were transferred out of Conyers to other Rockdale middle schools."

"What frustrated Snow most was that her school failed to meet the state's goals in only one category -- special education students. All the other subgroups at the racially and economically diverse school met the goals easily."

As my SO says, are college admissions going to take into account schools on the needs improvement list? How are they going to sort through a mess like that above?

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1003/05nochild.html

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. The purpose of public schools is to prepare kids for low wage jobs

These are typically located some distance away from the dwindling areas where low earners can afford to live, and where the working homeless can avoid seizure by law enforcement personnel, so a bus commute of several hours each way is the norm.

It's a little easier for these kids since they just stay on one bus for their entire trip, when they are adults they will have to change buses and trains several times.

But the exercise is still good conditioning for them, they will reach adulthood accustomed to waking before dawn, spending several hours on a bus to reach a location where they will spend the day doing as they are told, endure the return trip, and arrive at home in time for a shower and a nap before starting over again.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. the Cheap Labor Conservatives/PNAC game plan exactly! IN A NUTSHELL!

[sam sarrha]

2. Typical example of 'W's Hollow, not well thought out, but good sounding

lies for votes. This is a pattern, being reveled more and more every day for 'W', i still think he is just a wet brained drunk on a binge with the nations tax money.. with no concern for the suffering of others, he always got bailed out by his daddy's influence so he isn't afraid about messing up BIG TIME !!! but I am.

[susu369]

4. Leave no child behind

really means

"Leave no child's behind, kick them all."