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Obama: Revise No Child Left Behind law
President Obama proposed overhauling the No Child Left Behind law that was his predecessor's hallmark education initiative, aiming to eliminate several of the measure's controversial mandates on public schools but adding new ones.
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By Nick Anderson

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zeinali wrote:
It's wonderful to see a President standing up with passion and vigor for the needs of the American people, for our children, and not mainly for the selfish needs of the some few rich and privileged individuals or group of people. The President can't do everything perfectly and on his own, at least he is starting the improvement process wherever is a need for improvement, the rest it's up to us, responsible citizens, lawmakers, teachers, parents, and so on. There are a lot of complex and interrelated factors contributing to the success or lack of success of our public schools: psychological, emerging of new economic, social, cultural structures and environments,which were not sustained, supported and embraced by adequate and adaptive corresponding contemporary laws and regulations. Families and teachers were losing their authority, power and respect, partly by a growing destructive popular and epidemic uncivilized subculture glorifying violence, inhumanity and the gangster way of life style; partly hindered and undermined in their efforts to discipline children by simplistic protective laws, which in the end effect turned to be more harmful than the good old discipline school. You can't put the blame only on parents or teachers in a society where children are raised by only one parent, who or is either on welfare or working two jobs to pay the bills, where teachers can't even separate fighting student at schools or engage actively in disciplining them, because of fears to lose their job or fear of retaliation. Regarding discipline and respect, schools should function like military operations, that's how schools in other countries succeed with no big issues and no need for Police on campus. The most significant educational and emotional impact on children at home is during their first 7 years, after children start the first grade, the main educational and character forming impact is shaped and formed by schools, public or private, mainly by teachers, but also by peer pressure, as kids are easily influenced. So, it's a complex social-cultural world, a lot needs to be changed, adapted and updated, to improve our schools and our children' education and character.
3/14/2010 12:19:37 PM
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