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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The regs gave schools a certain amount of latitude and did not prescribe a specific thing that forced disaster.

So, if the locals "screwed up" (whatever that means---I'm guessing low test scores), are the feds prepared to send their people in and take over the local schools? Or will they just force the locals to close schools, have private "takeovers", fire teachers, bus kids, and/or hire tutoring services (some of which NCLB did)? Are the feds prepared to pay for all of that or will the locals have to jack their taxes to do it?

Don't look for too much "love" from the locals. Don't look for their votes either.

Where on earth are you getting all that? There's *NO* fed takeover of schools, they aren't forcing closures or privatization, nor are they forcing firings of teachers of busing of kids, et cetera. Holy shit. You must be one of those wacky people who also believes in FEMA concentration camps and UN Agenda 21, with that kind of talk, you're seriously off the deep end.[/quote]

Those were rhetorical questions.  I was trying to expose the stupidity of all the regulations.  There is no way to enforce the new CC or the teacher evaluation mandate. Look, they have been giving waivers to NCLB so now we are all primed for waivers on CC testing when that doesn't work out.  What is the purpose of linking teacher evaluations to testing?  Even if tests are put out there, people are becoming numb to so much testing.  They realize that there is no real benefit to the testing.  The students do not take them seriously anymore.  The districts are starting to see that the emperor has no clothes as well.  The feds are only going to make themselves look weaker and undermine whatever they are trying to do (what ARE they trying to do anyway?).  There is no clear purpose to all of it (oh, except we will be able to compare states to each other).  States are all different in many, many ways.  What does it all help us to do?[/quote]

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