Reply #4: I have worked in higher education for 20 years, [View All]

[NewWaveChick1981]

and I am extremely familiar with Every Child Left Behind. I have monitored the information on ECLB coming out of the US Dept. of Education, and it has been increasingly bad. I have seen the gap grow between the haves and the have-nots, and it is extremely disturbing. I have two nieces who are just beginning elementary school, and I fear for them.

Standards are fine things to have, but not every child will conform to those standards. Many teachers have had to resort to "teaching to the test" to keep their heads above water, and this accomplishes NOTHING. ECLB needs to be scrapped---schools were far from perfect before, but this makes things so much worse.