Originally Posted By: JeffS
I don't know the details of "No Child Left Behind", but I can tell you one of my best friends left teaching because of it, and one major thing he talked about was teaching to tests rather than actual learning. He says that it pretty much killed any joy he had in his job.


The way I understand it is that the teachers are forced to teach the tests instead of teaching the pupils how to 'learn' or the schools start to lose federal funding. If a school doesn't have a certain percentage of kids passing the tests, they get reduced funding. That part is absolutely brilliant, if a school needs more help, cut the funding so they are in effect receiving less help. That is the main reason I wouldn't be able to send my children to a public school.