The rantings of a teacher who retired from the classroom but not from education.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Ms. Whatsit has a post urging everyone to petition congress to dismantle the NCLB law. Please, read her post and sign the petition. The NCLB law does nothing to help our children. Its mandates put undo burdens on our children to perform at levels that some are incapable of reaching. It forces teachers to teach to tests, rather than to teach our students to think.
The school systems need accountability, but this law is not the way to go about doing it.