Dear Bush: see all the kiddies left behind in my classroom?

Finally! NEA to challenge 'No Child Left Behind'

It's been years and years of hearing from my teacher friends, and from seeing it for myself when teaching the kiddies, that "No Child Left Behind" only works if you're already in a decent school district with a stable source of generous funding. Like a lot of things that the Bush administration cooks up, the intention behind the act may have been good, but reality has never worked more against what's intended. In my inner city middle school where a large percentage of the students are either immigrants or children of immigrants, their parents aren't going to be able to afford private tutors to get their kids up to par with school districts that don't have security officers patrolling about and guarding every entrance of the school. Not to mention that there are Special Ed kids, ESL kids, and various other kinds of students with different educational needs. To fail an entire school based on one group of students' failed test score is simply discriminatory.

I really hope the NEA will get the victory they need for a thorough reform. It's about time.