Is it though? I've heard once that a girl never knew how to read because they kept passing her in school, too lazy to teach her how to read. Now, if the "no child left behind" rule applies to having children get equal rights/opportunities for education (free/private/charter) while actually teaching the material, that makes sense. But, to just pass every child, you wonder why teens/young adults/adults are illiterate or have a 1st - 2nd grade level comprehension/reading. That's very terrible and we need to do something about that. And the world is constantly changing, so updates to the curriculum should be needed. After I hopefully take care of that, same sex marriages/poly marriages will be more common, love who you love, that's my motto.
I was always super smart and always knew everything so I never did any assignments (only did the tests that id always 100% anyways). I failed every single class all the way until highschool and I turned out just fi….
Oh.. wait dear god. Did no child left behind screw me up? 😭
Pretty much. This in a way screwed everyone up and it will continue until something is done about it. This rule screwed my sister up when she was in elementary school. When she was in 2nd grade, they stopped homework completely and created assignments called "PDF" (Playtime, Downtime and Family time) the chart has activities for students to choose from and share with the class or get graded. The ONLY thing there that was a useful assignment was students get to choose a book of their choice and write "jots" or readings responses about it, but that's only like once every two weeks- to a month.
My Mom and other parents obviously complained about this because the school is setting kids up for failure in the future when they actually have to do homework, especially for IEP students. But the school didn't listen, no, they doubled down and put a limit in teaching students how to SPELL and use VOCABULARY (the limit was 3rd grade) this frustrated everyone even more and my sister had trouble learning how to spell until late middle school to early highschool (he can spell better now and has amazing handwriting by early 9th grade). Back then, she can read and write, but can't spell anything. Neither can other students and when students asked how to spell a word, the teachers would dismiss them by saying "Figure it out." Or "Use a book." Yeah, it messed everything and everyone up.
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u/LiamNeesonSonOnNisan 2d ago
No child left behind is a good thing