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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a liberal democrat and I ask you: Why does this have to be a political issue? Don't we pretty much all agree that our children aren't being taught with the same academic rigor that we were taught with before No Child Left Behind? I'm sick and tired of having to try to re-teach everything to my 3rd grader and spending hundreds on tutors every month because teachers are told to spend two weeks glossing over subjects and then coming back to them a couple months later instead of spending time on teaching them in depth the first time around. In speaking with friends and family in other states, it appears their children are much further ahead than mine are in the same grade. This isn't a political issue to me, it's an academic issue - TEACH MY KIDS TO READ AND TEACH THEM TO DO MATH.[/quote]

Who passed NCLB? Hmmm? Of course it’s a political issue. No Republican is going to improve anything having to do with public schools. And they don’t want to, they just want you to think they give two sh**s. They give exactly ZERO. They used Common Core in states that have it as a wedge issue, now they blather on about CRT and Covid learning loss. But they don’t have any sort of actual plan to fix it, or desire to fix it, only to distract and tile up parents for votes. The fox is in charge of the hen house. [/quote]

NCLB was a bipartisan measure. It passed 87-10 in the Senate, and 381-41 in the House. Ted Kennedy introduced it in the Senate and voted for the final bill. Interestingly, the law that repealed most of NCLB [i]also[/i] passed with broad bipartisan majorities in 2015. Complain all you want about the GOP, but NCLB was a bipartisan mania. [/quote]

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