Friday, February 10, 2012

Lost children...


Recently Obama has freed ten states from no child left behind.  He suggests that we need to measure the students by other means due to an ineffective system.  The article depicts that unfortunately by 2014 the children are not and will not meet the standards set forth.

He asked the schools to come up with a plan to reach all children, not just the unsuccessful students.  Obama also requests that the effective schools aid those less fortunate schools.

Why should you read this?  We are all effected by this.  I chose this article, because it hits home.  I have two children currently in our school system and watch my oldest daughter occasionally struggle with her courses.  The current system has programed many teachers to teach toward this damn test.  This infuriates me!  She has never read Nathaniel Hawthorne or even Edgar Allen Poe!  This is discouraging, as a parent to know that, she has missed an education that should cultivate our children.  Instead, this system trains them to be on an assembly line.  Teachers taught because they loved their careers now it appears this is just another job.  Shame on Americans for watching our children fail.

 

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