No Child Left Behind working?

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Originally Posted by marichiko

That's what I like, a logical, well thought out response. You and your highly intelligent children deserve the society that you will reap.

At least it's my own response, and not just a regurgitation of what I read in the latest issue of some left-leaning magazine.

The rest of your stuff is all irrelevant to the subject of primary and secondary education. My claim is that taking more money from "well-off" people and tossing it into failing school systems will have a negative effect all around. This has nothing to do with parent's spending money on college educations, fire, police, roads, retirement or anything like that.

And if you're upset by people calling your solutions "throwing money at it", then you probably shouldn't advocate exactly that. The upshot of your article is that poor kids going to poor schools perform more poorly than rich kids going to wealthy schools, that the US can afford to spend more on social welfare and therefore it should, the implication being that this money will somehow solve the problem.