Children Left Behind

Perhaps the program I hate the most that ever came out of the cesspool of thought from the Bush administration is this "No Child Left Behind" POS program. We've all heard the same arguments about how the testing is not done correctly and it forces teachers to teach to a test instead of teaching what they thing is worthy. This argument doesn't necessarily hold that much weight with me. The vast majority of people have no idea what is the best way to teach a child on top of no two children being the same. Saying some central office making tests are not accommodating all the teaching styles needed to teach applies to teachers as well. Both groups are being arrogant in thinking they understand what is best.

There is some point here. The federal government should not be involved with anything dealing with morality. It is not the responsibility of the federal to to teach us anything. It is there to protect us from the state politics and to promote equal trade. At the very least the states should be making up the tests.

My personal grievance is this concept that every child is equal and deserves to advance at the same rate as every other child. This is ludicrous. Not every person is born with equal intelligence and to send our children through the first 18 years of their life thinking this and then dump them into college where the professors could care less is a huge fault in parenting. We should be preparing our kids so that they accept their own failures before reaching the point of no return. It is a grievous miscarriage of epic proportions to make our children believe they are special and just as good as every other child when only 10% of children can be considered gifted.

Instead we should be training our kids early on what it means to fail. If we do this when they are 13 then we can be there for them and giving them a helping hand. We can be considerate and understanding so they can learn from their mistake and move to become a better person. Children should be allowed to get Fs and an A should only be granted to those who make more then 90 in the class. Bell curves should only be used if less then 10% of the class made an A. Don't get me wrong. I'm not also abdicating that we force our children to fail, only that the possibility exist.