No Child left behind (www2.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml)
The No Child Left behind policy was intended to fix poor preforming schools, by being very strict on the teacher by forcing them to work harder to improve their schools performance. However if the teachers and the schools continue to fail, then the school will either be shut down are turned into a charter school and run by a private company. People argue that the policy is a good policy. For schools that continues to fail there no point to be keep the school open because they will never improve, which cause the kids to lose out on a good education, for their school fail to teach them.
However, these people have a point because fixing a failing school is impossible, once the school starts to fail, there’s no point of return for the schools, and no point in sending students to the schools to fail. The Policy has a six year span, the first year if the school fail to meet standard test requirement on the standardized test, the school will be placed on “need to improve” and must develop a two-year improvement plan for the subject that the school is not teaching well. Third year forces the school to offer free tutoring and other supplemental education services to struggling students. Fourth consecutive year, the school is labelled as “corrective action”, which will result in hiring of new staff, change in curriculum, and extend time for student in class.
There penalties might be harsh on the teachers to get them to work harder, but the penalties will only hurt the teachers in the long run. The teachers know for a fact that they cannot teach students who fail to learn, for if the teachers don’t have the skills to teach the children. Then nothing can give them the skill to improve the students test scores. Therefore they might as well shut the school down or turn it into a charter school in the first year if it starts to fail, only if the school was always failing.
Finally, I agree with No child left behind, for it a good idea but it’s done wrong, no policy should punish anyone for failing with a chance of losing their jobs. A policy which causes anyone to lose their job, because of the students not being able to learn will only build up resentment from the teachers to the students. Because the teacher are smart enough to know that certain kids don’t care about school, and they cannot motivate those kids. Therefore there’s no chance to save their jobs, so the teachers will most likely not teach collect their pay checks then find a new job in the fifth year.