Is Our Children Learning?

No Child Left Behind is leaving our children behind. Everything GW Bush attempts to accomplish is a complete and utter failure. His agenda should simply be "Oh, why even bother". It's even doomed at its inception. How did we ever allow a man, who is unable to utter the English language without completely mangling it beyond recognition, to design a plan that would somehow improve the education system? Let's face it, he isn't exactly an exemplary model for higher learning. If one of my children graduates from Yale speaking that way, I'll smack 'em! Then demand a refund from Yale. I cringe at the thought of Bush making education the cornerstone of his administration.

A well rounded education is a thing of the past under BushCo. While other industrialized nations students are able to learn multiple languages, play an instrument, immerse themselves in the arts, and sports, in addition to math and reading; the students of the United States are learning to test to whatever standards the powers that be deem current. That's 'No Child Left Behind'...learn the basics to pass the mandatory tests so that the schools will not be punished for low scores. That is Bush's goal for our children.

Yale?! Who am I kidding? I must have been high back there for a minute...what was I thinking? My kids won't be going to Yale. They can kiss Oxford goodbye while they're at it. 'No Child Left Behind' is not exactly churning out Rhodes Scholars by the truck load. Then again, with instruction time for history and social studies being scaled back to make time for math and reading, perhaps Bush's ultimate agenda is that our children will never have to learn about what a miserable failure he was as a president.

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" ~ George W. Bush

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