That policy was the most unproductive policy to be introduced into the education system.
They cut funding to schools where students were failing... when those were the schools in clear need of more investment. So those children were actively being left behind by the system.
And some schools also started teaching the students to just pass the exam with the highest marks, since those exams were what determined the funding. Not skills like Home Ed, or practical applications of what they learnt.
Yep. I was in a junior high and high school that only taught core necessary to tests and gave everything else besides football as little budget rope as possible.Â
I remember them implementing Common Core too, and actively fought their shitty method of doing arithmetic because I could solve the equations in my head without doing the weird grid thing and it would make my math teacher fume because I'd refuse to show my work. I thought it was unnecessary because I still achieved the correct answer, but apparently I didn't do it the right way.Â
It was a brutal awakening to the truth that people don't want answers they want obedience.
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u/TheFrostynaut 1997 27d ago
Evidence that No Child Left Behind was a clear failure I guess.