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" I could not agree with you more. Any exceptional teacher AND parent will agree with you as well. "

" let's face it people...there are some groups of children that will NEVER achieve at grade level.....the regular ed kids achieving at level or above level will continue to achieve at grade level or above...This is an age old problem...the only difference is is that there are more kids in the educational system that have 3 strikes against them from the beginning...and they are dragging the system down. The failure is not to be directed at the teachers...but at the parents who are not providing the tools necessary for their child (children to succeed). Non parent involvement equals student failure. That's the bottom line. "

" The protection of teachers by the unions and failure of the school systems to monitor and fire sub-standard teachers has caused the creation of "no child left behind" . Granted that the good teachers do not need to be monitored but 40% dropout rates and 5th grade reading levels from inner city high schools across the nation have caused the rank and file to demand accountability. Failure of the NEA and School Boards to remove these substandard teacher from the classroom is to blame. A student that reaches high school and can only read at a 5th grade level was passed on from grade to grade by teachers. "No child left behind" exposes these frauds in our public school systems. Every person I have ever talked to about education can tell me the name of a sub-standard teacher that needs top be FIRED. If you care about the children then support thier only advocate for ever getting a fair deal. "

" Then fix the program. In my opinion those children should never have been put into the regular school system. But guess why they were. Because of their parents wanting them to be treated the same. They are not the same and cannot learn academically. That is sad but true. Now if that is truly why the programs are failing which I truly doubt get those kids removed. I think the problem stems from children and parents who can care less. However that is a problem and something needs to be done about it. We either pay now or pay later. Let's educate the kids and pay now. "

" Test driven approach? Let's see I went to school for at least 16 years and every class I took was test driven. You know when you take a test and see what you know. I wonder who has thought of a different approach? I guess you can just ask the kids and they will say they know the stuff. It is my experience that people do the least amount necessary to get a certain grade. If no grade is expected no work will probably be done. No wonder kids are failing today. I think it is wise for test driven classes. Apparently all of those teachers retired and we have a new generation of what? How are they going to know what the kids know if they don't test them? "

" This act will do more harm than good. We need someone if office to get rid of this program. Period. It has its good points, but in the long run it is killing the special ed kids that have been spoon fed for 5 years or more and are now being thrown in a regular education. THere is no way that a kid learning on a grade 3 level can learn in a 7th grade classroom. THink about it, how can one learning to multiply 3 digit numbers by 3 digit numbers be expected to be tested and PASS algebraic concepts with variables and fractions. "