tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803826.post3463373690092090867..comments2024-03-29T00:30:10.138-07:00Comments on BikeBubba's Boulangerie: Now this could be profitable....Bike Bubbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803826.post-22344593515154941052010-06-18T23:20:13.730-07:002010-06-18T23:20:13.730-07:00As a home schooled graduate, I agree with these as...As a home schooled graduate, I agree with these assessments. :D<br /><br />NCLB was a smoke screen, and it stifled national discussion on the issue for the next decade under the pretext of a solution.RobertDWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468867977431697913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19803826.post-14768380970014215512010-06-18T11:41:54.574-07:002010-06-18T11:41:54.574-07:00What has always bugged me is that NCLB isn't e...What has always bugged me is that NCLB isn't exactly asking for the moon. It's asking that people be able to, um, do what people who graduate from high school should be able to do, by the time they graduate from high school, with measurements along the way.<br /><br />No, NCLB isn't the way to do it, but really, there's something seriously broken (well, we already knew that) when a call for basic proficiency appears to require massive tinkering, expenditures, and "teaching to the test" in order to meet the requirements. You and I both know a $40 math book can teach an average child a year of elementary school math -- that leaves a LOT left over for the special needs kids, at current funding levels. So while I agree that NCLB is a fundamentally misguided program, blaming NCLB for the stupidity that's resulted from implementing it is in some ways just a massive smoke screen.pentamomnoreply@blogger.com