Implication

This post, although it is shown as my last has been one developing for a long time. In this post I am trying to show what potentially could happen if the two different sides on this topic do not come to agree or convince the other what is right for everyone. As I have said I do not feel like their are two real opinions on this topic because everyone wants what is best for children. The people who want to continue to let the No Child Left Behind legislation run the education system have to be convinced that it hasn't worked and needs to be reworked. This may seem like a very bias statement, but there is nothing else that can be done to bring people wanting to keep the legislation and people wanting to change it together.
If we continue to leave the education system the way it is and there is no change then there will be many consequences. More importantly to me their will be many consequences for my family. Since the legislation calls for all student to be proficeint in reading and math by 2014 there are going to be many schools that will not make the increases necessary to reach this goal. When a school does not make the increases necessary then the schools are put on probation. This can cause principals, teachers, and other staff members to lose their job. Also, if the legislation is not changed then their will be a continued decrease in funding for schools who need it to make it better for the students. The fine arts category will also continue to experience a decrease in funding and perhaps eventually be taken away completely so the schools can focus on meeting the goals they must for the legislation. Schools will continue to teach to the test and kids who do not test well will continue to do bad and be deemed by the government as "not proficient" if the legislation remains the same. As you can tell things will more than likely continue to get worse if there isn't an understanding come to. Everyone wants the best for children it is just what different people see as "the best" in terms of education.

Post Election Day

To start off with I would like for everyone who voted to give themselves a pat on the back. Voting is our duty as citizens of this great country. It is a simply price to pay for the many luxuries we do have.

I wanted to wait until after the election to post about my election day experience and my feelings regarding the election. This blog is all about the No Child Left Behind legislation and the field of education, but education has been the least of the candidates worries due to the state of our economy. Because of this, the candidates views on education did not influence the way the majority of people voted. So, this post is not going to revolve around education, but around the election day experience.

When I woke up on November 4th I realized that it was time for me to vote, since I had not done so early. I was actually very excited about the thought of having a part in who was going to be the leader of our country. I stood in a relatively short line compared to my expections, voted, took my sticker and was off. After this it was all about waiting. Many news station were predicting who won different states after only a small percentage of the votes were turned in early and I was confused on how this could be done. Early on it looked as though the election was going to be close, but later on in the night when the winner was unofficially declared it did not seem so. From my blog I am sure my political opinion can be deduced and because of this I was even more frustrated with the scene I saw last night. There were cheers that could be heard all around campus, but what really annoyed me was the people screaming about how anything could happen and the mesiah had come. This moves to my other strong opinion that someone should be voted for based on their policies alone. Otherwise the Franklin St. experience was one of a kind and a really exciting place to be.

Yesterday was a historic day in this nations history and regardless there is something special about what happened last night. People have very strong opinions regarding this election both positive and negative. For those who think that our nation is now "screwed", take a moment, step back and think as positive as one can. One man will have a significant influence on the country, but because of this the country is not going to fall apart. Everyone should love this great country and embrace whatever the future holds for it and believe the future can be positive.

Theory Post

Education has been a widely argued topic between intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike. In the past 8 years there have been sides on the topic of education due to the legislation, No Child Left Behind. Personally, I feel the two sides are those who are for the the complete reworking of the legislation and those who are not. These positions came after the american public education system experienced the No Child Left Behind plan for the first year. The side not in favor of the plan continued to move further and further away from it as time progressed. It is not this simple, but with all the evidence that the legislation has not worked and can not work it would seem that the group of people who want to continue to with the same legislation are not well informed on the issue. Politically, both democrats and republicans want to reform the legislation in order to better the education system and set atainable goals that can be funded. In the end the different sides on this issue are not that polarized.
To bring the two sides closer together I believe it would be helpful for the people who want to keep the legislation to listen to some people who are in the field of education talk about their problems with it. This particular issue is one that is hard to bring both sides together on. Either you change the legislation or you don't. Both groups want what is best for children and if one group presents an idea that works better than the other one would think that the other group would be in favor of changing their plan so the children could experience the best education possible.