rightwinger
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Preachin' to the choir rightwinger. I went to public school in NJ and I teach here. We do a damn good job, given what we're dealt with.
There is an argument to be made that there is certain information that every American needs to know. National standards would cover that.
But there is an equally cogent argument that there is different skill set that people in CO need, that people in NYC do not.
Personally, I think the horse has already left the barn. We are part of a global network; not just a local or national one.
My issue is pragmatic. Will national standards supercede state and local ones? Will they contradict each other?
Will teachers be bogged down with so many govt. regulations, that they will have little time to teach? Will students be bogged down with so much information, their heads will explode? We're getting there.
Personally, I think NCLB is useless. All it does is turn D students into C students. Everyone else gets ignored.
To me, a teachers job is to make every student better off than they were. It means taking a kid who will likely drop out and getting him to eventually graduate and hold a job. It means taking a C student and getting him to the point he can go to a college or trade school. It means taking that A student and getting him focused to excell at high levels
Each kid has different backgrounds and different expectations. If a teacher can move a kid to the next level, he is doing his job