Tornado Alley (PROG)

[BullNBear52]

It's pretty simple: If you live in a wealthy, or even upper middle class area, you'll have good schools, because high property taxes will take care of that.

But that isn't fair. All kids should have the same opportunities.


That is true but you are both out of the loop and the history of education in this country over the last 20 years.

https://www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml

Passed under Bush with Ted Kennedy's help the NCLB Act was mean't to fix the disparity from wealthy school districts and poor ones.

And as Kennedy said when it was passed, Now we have to fund it.

It mandated universal testing in grammar schools on the 3 Rs and the grades were published on the web. If a school failed 2 years in a row it insisted on remedial action to fix the problem including removing administrators and teachers. And if the school struck out twice the law allowed you to opt your child out to a passing school. And it went further to say the school district would be required to transport your child to the new school at their expense.

Now back to Kennedy. By the time my son hit Kindergarten he had already been rezoned to a different school further from our house.

But it had failed 2 times in a row. So we attended a meeting in July about our options and a school board member was there. They explained why the school had failed and I asked ok how are you going to fix the problem. There was no additional funding so they were going to reallocate resources to address the parts where they had failed.

My response was you were robbing from Peter to pay Paul. We are opting out to a passing school.

By the time he got to 3rd grade the school said we have to put him in 4th grade math.

But you still had to be proactive when 5th grade rolled around where to send him since it would be a new school.

Opted out again for an advanced learners school.

HS same thing. He enrolled at a school for the IB program.

12 years of absolute BS and Kennedy was right. The NCLB Act was never funded.

And don't get me started on that bitch Betsy. She wanted to bleed off money from public education to fund her for profit schools.