The no child left behind act of 2001 is flawed and should be removed

Nice debate, I see you feel passionately about this subject (seeing as how you've added personal accounts). "Now lets say that your analogy was put into motion and they did lower the standards. Then wouldn't lazy students who didn't care about their grades pass the test and move on to the next grade? Which in turn would make trouble once they got out into the working world and didn't have the required skills to do the job that they had?" ============================================================================ You're making the assumption that they will lower the standards to nothing. It isn't that lazy students will not have to do anything and they will pass to the next grade (seeing as how the act is in session right now and people are still being held back.). It's is for the students that work extremely hard, however they just weren't born with the same learning ability as another student. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Also if we lower the standards time and time and time again to fit each year that goes by eventually no child would learn anything because all they would have to do is make like a 8 out of 36 or lower." =========================================================================== Once again, you're making the assumption that they're trying to lower the standards to nothing. Would you not say it is more reasonable that they will lower them from 21 out of 36 [....] to 18 out of 36? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Now also from personal experience I am a 10th grader at Smithfield Selma high school of Johnston county in North Carolina. I have seen first hand how stupid this makes our school look I make good grades yes. But when the kids that don't try in school and have no motivation or what ever you want to call it get in a class that I am in and talk goof off and hinder me to learn I think yes it does hurt me and other students like me." =========================================================================== Thinking realistically, was the distraction present before the bill was put into place? If yes, then it's because that doesn't point out a wrong in the bill itself, but points out a wrong in the people that are distracting you. If no, then either you are lying, or you hadn't started school yet and that's why it wasn't present. I'm a 12th grader at Central High School in Springfield, Missouri (a school that was currently ranked 3rd nation wide). I see first hand the students that are lazy and the students that disrupt the classes, but I also know the majority of these students aren't passing and moving on also! Another thing I see, is the students that struggle and study day in and day out, just to receive a C on a math exam because they weren't endowed the ability of other smarter students. Now you're saying, lowering the standard (not drastically, but just a little) so that, that student can receive maybe a B- or a C+ [....] hurts a student that is receiving an A? Of course it doesn't! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Finally I will state that it lowers our entire nations standards and makes the country look bad." ============================================================================ I'll give it to you, that the United States of America is not at the top of the charts when academics or intelligence is concerned. But then again, ask yourself this, were we ever? NOOOOOOO Looking at our 10th in the world in education may not look the best at first site, but when you take into account that there are 195 nations, you realize that it is a great accomplishment. Do you think you can come up with enough evidence that says being in the top 6% in the world in education is bad?