No Child Left Behind?

[Professor_Adam]

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LOL It's the unions (teachers) who are upset and have whined to parents who (may) have nilly-willy accepted whatever the teachers have said about it...so tend to be blindly supportive. (but, parents "have" to support their child's teachers- they are heavily indebted to the school system) Until this program, teachers had solid job security. This is the FIRST and only time that academic standards were tied to public teacher/public school employment and funding. It makes the school system function more like a capitalistic society. I don't think administration is up in arms, they have good job security, but the teachers who don't produce results are going to have consequences.

Before you say I'm "anti-teacher" you have to know I'm NOT. My immediate family has several teaches and public school workers- including a middle school principal and librarian. We have lots of public school employees around my dinner table. If teachers only had to teach the 3 R's, this wouldn't be an issue (maybe) but the ridiculous sub-subjects and social service role have diluted and diffused the subject of teaching greatly. In homeschool circles, you'll find a lot of parents who point out studies that indicate only x number of minutes per day spent on a subject in public school. We can ask why, but at the end of the day, the students are not getting what they need- which is CONTACT hours in math and reading. End result= poor academic test scores.

I think homeschooling and/or private schooling definitely trump public school education. My kids were in private school for a few years and when they went into the equivalent grade at a public school they were light years ahead of their peers. My two oldest were both "promoted" one grade higher upon entering public school. This was in Texas.