No Child Left Behind Obtains A Failing Grade!

During 2002, the Federal government, through Action of Congress, enacted the controversial No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB) . This system was planned to improve the primary and secondary school student’s education, mainly in the areas of English along with math. While this is an admirable objective, the build of the system has hit a brick wall to bring the desired results. Most educators have laid the fault on the method laid out within the No Child Left Behind plan. With its target squarely on English and math, pupils, teachers and administrators confront a task that imposes punishments if the objectives are not met.

Such punishments take the form of rescinded Federal funding, which produces a catch- 22 kind of condition. Even the funding which is appropriated has not been obtained by the towns. This is standard practice since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In 2002, about$ 4. 2 billion bucks which was appropriated never reached the states. In 2007, this money gap grew to an astonishing$ 14 billion dollars! To add to the monetary woes of the school districts, states all around the united states were going through budget shortfalls in revenues, due to the state of the general market.

This key fact resulted in several states discovering it necessary to generate budget cuts in several sections, such as, you guessed it, education! Although schools are required to administer consistent tests in English as well as math, the tests protocol of No Child Left Behind does not stretch to other subjects. Some schools were compelled to drop additional subjects from their curriculums if they were to maintain the Federal funding. This doesn’t seem like a balanced overhaul of our academic system.