NCLB

I thought at first the video did look kind of weird because she is a teacher. She looks like a young teacher so i dont know if she has enough experience to actually give a credible argument. However, i do agree with some of the claims she makes because she does it in a way without pointing fingers. I think on paper the NCLB might seem like an awesome amazing idea when in actuality it can't actually fully work. The act has way too many complications and its not really fair in certain schools. I do agree that teachers should be the one to dictate how this plan is to actually be executed. Some schools don't have all the right teaching aids to helps these students actually succeed. I know that when I went to high school so many kids didnt graduate because they hadnt passed their FCAT. Some of them even had good G.P.A's but that didnt matter. So much for "no child left behind". I also believed that taking time out of important curriculum to learn instead of the FCAT was completely stupid. I would hear my teachers say that thanks to the FCAT our normal lesson plans have been cut. I grew up with FCAT being drilled into me. In my high school there was an extreme low rate of people who did pass their FCAT. And thanks to those students my school became a "ZONE SCHOOL". A zone school is when your school is put into this 3 year system where you have to take 8 classes and extend school an hour longer, just to practice the FCAT. So basically when i was a freshman, midway through the year they changed everything and i had school at 7:30 until 3:30. I literally wanted to kill myself. I thought it wasn't fair that i had passed my FCAT and thanks to other people i had to take two extra FCAT classes that I didnt need. Since i was a zone school we also werent allowed to get an early release days and we were limited to the amout of pep rallies we can actually have. Basically my high school experience was put to crap. And in the end of the program it was still the same amount of people failing and passing. Just proof that the programs, and these systems never really work. Its up to the teachers, students, and the parents to ensure that their children/students don't get left behind. Thats why i agree with her that its not really very proficient to test kids and then base them on people in their group and how those people have improved or not improved, but you yourself could actually be improving. She really is speaking the truth because its not fair for us to get punished because some students can't take a test as well as others so why should the whole school get punished for that? It shouldn't. She actually makes a very valid and clear argument, even though she seems to be a young teacher.