No Child Left Where?

No child left where?

Unsettled? You bet. I am still cracked wide open, about the Federal No Child Left Behind bullshit. I thought college was going to be my first journey to boredom. Trust me I have been on quite a few journeys in life. I am pleasantly surprise so far, credits to my English class at the UNC Charlotte, (...Go Niners!). Starting with this thought provoking discussion and assignment on the subject of “Literacy”, where I am able to read some background data about the NCLB (No Child Left Behind). I guess I could have read up on the policy when it first hit the tubes. One would think, for a person like me, with house full of school-kids, that I would be consuming every crazy news and punditry crab about this topic when it first came out. I did not. I was busy trying to make ends meet…you know…and I frankly did not have time for shitty stuff like that at the time? Seriously, I mean, how can you judge some little kid’s entire life success from a stupid reading test?

A matured society should produce great educators...support them and left them do their job.

A great educator in my opinion is someone who genuinely loves to pass on life skills to another person, and feel personally gratified after doing so. Skills that will make that pupil live a fulfilled life while contributing to society. However, the methods used buy this educator to transfer those skills must never…ever be define by a specific medium. If you could not ask Picasso to use only one kind of brush to paint all his masterpieces, then don't order a teacher to use a certain standardize test to identify, quantify and measure his or her pupil's literacy. 

As I read about the NCLB policy, I am left with many unanswered questions; among them is; why would a society full of countless brilliant minds, and presumably free wills, allow the implementation of such a narrow-minded, counter-productive policy?