Bush's No Child Left Behind Forcing Schools To Cut Subjects Beyond Reading

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Thousands of schools across the nation are responding to the reading and math testing requirements laid out in No Child Left Behind, Bush's education law, by reducing class time spent on other subjects and, for some low-proficiency students, eliminating it.

Schools from Vermont to California are increasing — in some cases tripling — the class time that low-proficiency students spend on reading and math, mainly because the federal law, signed in 2002, requires annual exams only in those subjects and punishes schools that fall short of rising benchmarks.

{While Bush still boasts about his no child left behind "act"].

[Betsy Ross]

1. No child left behind

as education takes a BIG step backwards. If all children receive an equally poor education, there is no behind.

[azmouse]

2. The Reps want kids to grow up stupid.

Stupid people are easier to brainwash.

[Rude Horner]

3. Exactly

Or to quote Karl Rove:

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing"