Just follow this simple flow chart and no child will be left behind!
Found from Doc Searls
To Bush and his crew, education is all about measurement. What's sickening is that just about every educational "reform" involves more of this crap. Kids' natural curiousity, their ability to learn in their own ways, their unique non-curricular aspirations, their inherent genius, the fact that all of them develop at different rates and in different ways, are all flattened like pavement. "No child left behind" is the box nobody (least of all kids) are allowed to think outside of.Reminds me of the flow charts made by people in US government beaurocracy for the "Total Information Awareness" program. Like TIA, what this chart probably represents is a way to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on beaurocratic machinations without actually addressing the underlying problems. I see a love and worship of computers and databases and Visio here, but not of the human beings who are teachers and students and parents. This program, if it ever staggers to its feet, will probably be ISO certified.
Incidentally, the No Child Left Behind program stipulates by law that schools must provide contact information for their students to be used by military recruiters. From what I've read, these recuiters seem to have been trained in agressive sales and cult recruitment techniques. This data gathering tactic fits in with the total information awareness philosophy and seems a perversion of what is implied by the name of the program.
