Jacobgunter started what I thought would be a great debate topic... Lets go from where he left off-

Thank you for actually being willing to debate me. Nobody else has really tried. First I would like to say that Im really busy, so I will give more in depth attacks on your case after my debate tourney this weekend. The main attack that I would like to make however is that the source that you used is coming from the government website. It would be in their best intrest to promote their own funding. Once again thank you thank you thankyou for really debating. I hope that it doesnt turn into a divisive, but more of an educating debate. Good luck Here is my case. There are some things in this world that are inherently good. Some things that are meant to be created for the betterment of humanity. However, not all of these have succeeded in the past. Take for exam-le, communism, it was a good idea, but a bad practice. NCLB suffers from the same problem. • NCLB (No Child Left Behind) has been a failure to educate the youth of today. According to www.nochildleft.com, Nov. 21 2006 With its narrow focus upon math and reading test scores, NCLB (No Child Left Behind) is seen by some as a dangerous experiment that threatens to disrupt and dilute the education of millions of children. Hidden within this law and the rules promoted by the Ed Department are dozens of changes that are untested, unproven and laced with political motives that could do great damage to public education. • NCLB was made as an attempt to increase votes to the Republican Party. According to Marianne and David McGrath, www.cod.edu, January 27, 2004 This colossal mistake began as a campaign strategy for garnering votes, whereby George Bush imagined he could fulfill his pledge to be the "education president" by embracing the education reform movement's latest mantra of testing, testing and more standardized testing. The result is that, sadly, the history of come-and-go fads like new math or forced busing is being repeated, insofar as the weight of federal law has been applied to yet another fanciful trend concocted by educational theorists who, like the education president, have likely never taught a single minute in an elementary or secondary classroom. • The increasingly visible flaws of the "No Child Left Behind" law and the growing, bi-partisan criticisms of its provisions demonstrate that the law will do more harm than good. According to www.fairtest.edu July 12th, 2005 NCLB's test-and-punish approach to school reform relies on extremely limited, one-size-fits-all tools that reduce education to little more than test prep programs. It produces unfair decisions and requires unproven, often irrational approaches to complex educational problems • There are other more successful plans out there, such as Florida's A+ Plan. According to www.edreform.com Jeb Bush's A+ plan has been extremely successful with it's appropriated school grading system. It has been much more successful than the federal program NCLB, and has received a great deal of recognition as a potential education reform to the current system. • The State of Utah has repealed NCLB and has seen a drastic rise in test scores since repealing it. • NCLB has a pass or fail system that does not correctly grade schools. It doesn't provide multiple grades for schools in order to appropriately fund them NCLB is unconstitutional. Article 1 sec. 8, art. 2 sec. 2, and art. 3 sec. 2 of the constitution show what the federal government is allowed to do. Anything else is a reserved power of the state due to the tenth amendment. national education is not included, and thus is unconstitutional NCLB is extortion. NCLB is an unfunded federal mandate meaning that it makes rules that the states have to follow without providing funding, and actually will decrease federal funding of other state programs if not adopted by any state. • NCLB is a program with good intentions. However, It's form and practice has ultimately been a failure. Therefore, may it be resolved by this student congress that the federal program, NCLB, be either amended or abolished