Legislators have mandated Band-Aids for years and haven't helped. They don't understand how complex it is. For example, when they mandate so many minutes of instruction, they know only how to make it work on paper. It's impossible to walk from one class to another in that amount of time, so teachers blow off tardiness and then no one has hall passes. If you mandate punishment for kids who swear, they'll do it to get out of class.
Legislators are in fantasyland and offer no solutions on how to run schools.
Legislators have the notion that we can produce excellence in the classroom through testing. There is no substitute for experience in the classroom. That is the bottom line. Inc. All Rights Reserved.