No Child Left Behind

I completely agree that the No Child Left Behind Act needs to be either revised over abolished. The fact that if your school fails their standardized test they get funds taken away defeats the whole purpose. That's maybe when the school should get more funding so that they can help their students succeed. And it's ridiculous that they have to take it in March. They might as well stop going to school after that, if they are already supposed to have been taught all that they needed to know that year. Two weeks for testing? That's absolutely crazy. And I'm sure that teachers have to spend way more than two weeks before the actually testing to review with their students. I also do not agree with how they evaluate. They should be evaluating how much the child has learned since their last school year and not comparing their scores with the scores of children from the previous year and the same school grade. It does not make sense. I would have liked to hear about what the teacher was going to say about private schools. I myself went to private school my whole life except for now. First of all, I feel lucky that I had the priveledge of going to private Catholic schools. My mother worked very hard so that she could send my brother and I to Catholic school and I appreciate it. We did have to take testing every year as well but it did not count against our funding. It was called the ITBS test. It tested us on english math science and probably reading and geography. We were tested on it for a week. But I do agree that it is not fair to the students because the test also decides if they can go on to the next grade or not. That really is not fair because there are students who will always just not do their best on testing.
I also saw the clip of what some of the democratic candidate hopefuls thought about the No Child Left Behind Act. I completely agreed with one of the candidate's thoughts about making a teacher's minimum wage 40,000 a year. Teachers definitely need to get paid more! Sure there are a lot of great kids but there are some pretty crazy ones. They don't get paid enough for what they have to deal with and what they are doing for the future of America. The same candidate also said that he wanted the fine arts program to be better in schools which I am 100% for! Not everyone can be star athletes! Yes we do need to promote being active but we needs to promote fine arts because there are so many kids out there with artistic,musical,and theatrical abilities but they can't show their abilities and get scholarships for them because their school's fine arts program is either horrible or non-existant.
So all in all, I think the No Child Left Behind Act needs to be completely revised!