Someone finally asked the democratic candidates whether NCLB should be scrapped or revised. The 2 candidates who answered both wanted it scrapped for all of the reasons everyone talks about in my classes: no emphasis on science, math, or the arts, no accommodations for children with special needs, emphasis on test scores, not enough help for the schools who need it.... and more. It was nice to finally hear these concerns voiced outside of one of my classrooms. Unfortunately there was only 2 questions about education, the other one was about which candidates had their kids in private schools. One candidate made a good comment that it didn't matter because a senator could get their kids in the best public schools because there are some great public schools but there are others that are not so great and that is a problem.
one a side note - the next questions were about the environment and one asked the candidates to raise their hands if they took a private jet to get to the debate. Most raised their hands! This was after they had talked about how "green" they were with their hybrid cars.
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