Do you feel the NCLB act is helping or hurting your school district?

HELPING

We applied for and got a grant so that we:

-we finally have an aligned curriculum in reading for K-3, which we had not had in 15 years

-the first couple of years there was enough money to get materials and personnel we hadn't been able to afford before

HURTING

--testing testing and more testing

--too much tutoring toward the test

--super levels of stress for teachers who need test scores to keep their jobs

At this point, it's not really affecting my district at all. I teach in a high-performing district in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, there are several things that are ludicrous about it, not the least of which is the requirement that by 2014 100% students will be at or above grade level in everything. First of all, grade level is defined as the average level of kids in that grade. That being true, how do you get every kid there or above? Statistically, doesn't that just move the grade level. Second, if you have a school of 2000 kids, and 1 misses grade level by one point, the whole school fails. Some politicians apparently didn't do so well in there logic and reasoning classes.

Don't get me wrong. I have very high expectations for my students, which they complain about often. However, being realistic is a virtue as well, and we need to realize that even the very best teacher in the world won't reach every kid.

unfunded mandate with loads of bs paperwork to prove we are doing what we were already striving to do.????

penalties for underperforming districts???????

teachers teaching to the test more & more??????

if you want students to care about all the mandatory assessments, give us 2 things;

1. make passing the assessment mean something to the student (part of their overall grade, no graduation/matriculation)

2. give districts all the money they really need and let teachers decide how to spend it!

students do not understand ayp or api & they really don't care!

until they care--nclb is weak and nearly useless!

It's just one more "feel good" law -- they want someone to be "accountable" but don't want to risk making anybody feel bad.

Bottom line -- kids aren't being held responsible for their actions which means they feel they can blame the teachers and schools for everything and the schools have to prove they aren't to blame.

Put me in the "hurting" column.

Hurting. The teachers aren't allowed to teach, and the kids aren't learning much else than how to do well on the test.

Hurting. The teachers here in FL are all teaching to the test. It's terrible.

Hurting.

Hurting. We teach to the test and are then reprimanded if our students do not do well enough....even if those students are EC kids who are not mentally at their grade level. We are supposed to work miracles, and it's ridiculous.

it is harming my school district. and i work for nyc public schools, so it's no joke.

vote for hillary, she has the best ideas and plans for education in america of the three.

nothing but harm

it shows you all the hoops to jump through, but doesn't help you jump