[Tennessean4Bush]

NCLB has to be the single worst thing to happen to public schooling in recent memory.

Give me a break. Too many on this board cannot keep the hyperbole in check.

Look, I agree with Fred Thompson and probably most of the people on this board that the federal government should get out of everything that they are not supposed to be in because they end up screwing virtually anything up that they try to manage. I am with Fred on federalism. But "The single worst thing to happen to public schooling in recent memory..."

[grellis]

I don’t know about hyperbole. I can’t think of one single thing, in recent memory, that has harmed public schools more than NCLB. Can you?

[pnh102]

But "The single worst thing to happen to public schooling in recent memory..."

How is my statement wrong? NCLB is simply the latest problem with public education. Teachers unions, liberal indoctrination and other such things had been going on since long before NCLB. Hence, when NCLB came around, it became the single worst thing to happen to public schooling in recent memory.

[SoConPubbie]

The NCLB is the worst thing to happen to education for any community impacted by Illegal Immigration. NCLB imposes strict sanctions on schools that do not continually increase their scores year after year to a finally acceptable level. On the face of it, it sounds just great. However, these communities have an influx of children from third-world countries that are not even fluent in their own language, much less English. The NCLB makes no allowance for dealing with this problem and this one issue makes meeting the goals set by NCLB impossible.