Thank you, Raul Grijalva: Obama’s Market-Based Policies Endanger Public Education.

[mountain grammy]

57. It's depressing to me that many Democrats are on board with this junk

when, for the most part , it's an abysmal failure. My daughter entered first grade in 1995 and was a little sponge, like most kids her age, soaking up learning just as fast as her little brain could work. We live in a small town and I knew every teacher in our elementary school (now closed, lack of kids.) They did so many innovative things with the kids; field trips galore, (with Rocky Mountain National Park as our back yard, the kids learned first hand about the environment) using other languages, even sign language, and generally creating a place of openness and learning. In 2000, her class moved on to the middle school, a happy and enthusiastic bunch of kids. When NCLB hit a couple of years later, everything changed. By high school, the love of learning was pretty much tested out of most of them. That's what this testing bull has done to our kids and this new policy is same shit, different day.