I’m not knocking homeschooling as I spent nine happy years homeschooling my bunch, but, the question is, what about kids in public schools? Is NCLB helping them?
I am in Special Education in a rural school. Before NCLB, kids on IEP’s or individual educational plans were allowed to just coast through. But now, they have to take the tests like everyone else and suddenly everyone cares if they learned something or not. I have noticed in my classroom years since NCLB, is that the teachers are now getting the idea that the bare minimum effort in teaching will not cut it and they have stepped up their efforts. The really lazy and incompetent teachers are starting to quit because it is too much like work now. We had three leave our small district this year who should have, and would have, been gone a decade ago if not for tenure. I say if NCLB will weed out these types of teachers, Halleluia.
