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Originally Posted by Emu
It's like what Helm said--it's who you vote for. Take the No Child Left Behind act, which focuses on reading, writing and math. Every other subject suffers: Science, social studies, history, the arts, and even P.E. for fuck's sake. The act is ridiculously diabolical, really. It's practically designed to produce not only work drones, but even the blue-collar workers in our country. The act is so ridiculously strict that even if say, three kids can't pass the test, the school doesn't get the funding. The entire school suffers for it. Not to mention the fact that the school spent MORE money than usual in order to bring the kids up to par, and if they fail anyway, it's as if they lost all the money they were going to be given PLUS what they spent. The school suffers, the children suffer, and they come out uneducated and without prospect for the future...and voila.
Consider that for a minute and ask yourself if a Democrat would ever pass a law like that. I believe one of Kerry's platform promises was that he'd reform and/or get rid of the NCLB.
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just throwing something from off the top of my head here, but is that necessarily bad? in the past, one of the fundamental requirements for a successful society has been a large, happy middle class, right? it seems to me that, if that's really what NCLB is preparing people for, it's going to prepare the average student for middle class labor and leave only those with the drive and lofty ambitions to continue their education and acheive "white collar" work. dunno, maybe, maybe not.
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