Every teacher I know professional HATES NCLB. I know of several people who left the teaching field because of NCLB.
Most politicians would never stand for someone doing to them what they did to educators through NCLB.Teachers- do you feel no child left behind has decreased your job satisfaction?
Teaching has got to be one of the hardest jobs there are. But NCLB has made it even harder. Kids don't learn how to learn they learn how to memorize. Kids don't even know how to write in cursive. They don't know how to apply what they have learned to other situations. Its ridiculous. In the end its the kids who are left behind.Teachers- do you feel no child left behind has decreased your job satisfaction?This was another of the most ridiculous things ever done to the educational process. It was a method or way to get the public schools to look bad so that there could be more private schools in operation. If all there is is private schools, our wonderful government won't have to fund education, and the legislators would be able to give themselves another well deserved raise!!
NCLB is among the worst things that ever happened to education. I got out of teaching. My advice-go into health care, or perhaps, become a psychologist. :) Good luck!Teachers- do you feel no child left behind has decreased your job satisfaction?yep,
then they show up to my university and expect that everything will just work out
fail a test? - thats okay, the teacher will fix it.
"I mean, like......um....like, it alwayz did b4".Teachers- do you feel no child left behind has decreased your job satisfaction?
Almost all teachers do not like NCLB Act./ Most school administrators dislike the law as well particularly the lack of adequate funding.
It is manageable ,however, and you should not base your decision on this law which may be changed in the future.
Accountability is a good thing; however the pendulum swung to the other side without creating balance. The reason for NCLB was millions of federal dollars being spent every year without any positive results. The politicians really did what the people wanted... a way to hold schools accountable for using federal funds. I am a teacher and while I don't care for the current NCLB; I do believe that it was a step in the right direction. Think of it this way; your neighbor wants to borrow money to pay the light bill, you loan them the money and then the lights get turned off anyways. You ask what happened and they come up with a thousand and one reasons why they didn't do what they were suppose to do. Then they ask for the same amount of money, but they need a little more; and then more; and then more till finally you have had enough. I think NCLB is the taxpayers way of saying enough..... schools cry for more money; more money; more money..... and yet the same amount of students are failing. I am a teacher with a BS secondary ed. and a MA in leadershipTeachers- do you feel no child left behind has decreased your job satisfaction?
with a purple passion!
I teach music, now i have to jump through rediculous long lesson plans that are nearly irrelevant!
It is an unfunded/underfunded unrealistic federal mandate.
we already have state frameworks and national standards to strive toward, (most of those were created by %26amp; for teachers of those particular subjects).
here's a hot question,...what about the 12% or so of students that just don't give a damn???
less than 50 years ago in this country, education was considered a priveledge. now it's a god given right?
why not let those that want an education get it? keep the doors open for all, but if the horse don't want to drink---send it on it's way!
I asked a similiar question here and here are the teachers replies
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Here's an answer I give on a similiar question --
These tests are a part of the NCLB law. This law mandates that kids are to take state tests every year to see how well the SCHOOLS are doing, and NOT the child. It does not affect the childs grades what so ever.
The better the scores, the MORE MONEY the school gets.
So, schools are doing ridiculous things to get that money, and *%26amp;*(%26amp;^% if the kids learn anything or not.
Teachers can not TEACH anymore, kids can not LEARN anymore. It's not the teachers fault. Their administrators tell them to do ANYTHING to get that money. And they tell the teachers HOW to do this.
So, they do things like this 'review packet'. They do other things like having the kids 'practice' on websites at home, have extra homework because of this, let kids be in after school programs to raise their test scores.
(I have to say here that this after school program is NOT to help the child with THEIR grades, it is to help the SCHOOL get MORE MONEY. I know, my daughter was in this program for 2 yrs before I learned the truth. The school would not tell me or anyone else the TRUE reason for this 'program'.)
The teachers now spoon feed the kids information to 'memorize' like robots so they can pass the tests so the school can GET MORE MONEY!
ALL they teach in schools now is what is on these tests. In short, the SCHOOLS are CHEATING by GIVING the kids the ANSWERS to these tests so they can GET MORE MONEY!!
What's more, the schools DO NOT tell the kids that these test scores do NOT reflect on their grades. They tell them things like they will fail if they don't pass. I know in Texas this IS true, but I'm in GA and teacher told my 2nd grade grandson this, which is NOT true!
Schools are doing things like cheating and changing the low test scores to show that the answers are right, and omitting the lowest test scores all together. It was in Yahoo news that GA is doing this, and the state dept of education is ALLOWING them to do this!
BUt like everything else in public schools, the schools do NOT get in trouble for this.
The schools are now churning out little robots that will know NOTHING, can't think for themselves, will NOT know how to cope with adult life, they are bored and too stressed out with school.
And this is the future of our WHOLE COUNTRY!!
I call it COMMUNISM. Not knowing how to think for them selves and already conditioned to have others tell them what to do.
HELLO, HITLER ANYONE !?!!
I can't understand for the life of me how some kids FAIL these tests when teh teachers are GIVING them the answers all year long ! This is ALL they give them!!
AND, teachers are teaching 'test taking strategies' to teach them HOW to take a test! OH how ridiculous!!
I wish there was a way to get this out to public knowledge, the NCLB law is disguised as helping the children be on grade level for READING, and nothing more. BUT, you see what is happening. How is all THIS helping the children to READ!!
MOST parents don't know that their children are turning into communist robots.
no child left behind ranks up there in the top 10 stupidest ideas in the history of time! Fact is, some people just need to be left behind. (remember the pirates code?)
The sooner we rid ourselves of NCLB we can focus on teaching again.
I am currently studying to be a teacher and NCLB seems to permeate every level of instruction. Many people seem to go into teaching because they have a passion for a subject and they wish to share that or just enjoy learning and want to teach others. With NCLB, you often have to put that aside and instead of teaching students what they 'should' know, you end up teaching them how to take tests so the school reaches its mandated goals so it gets its funding. .
NCLB isn't a bad idea, but setting a hard set of goals across the board seems a bit naive to me.
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