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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I have heard this from a Republican friend of mine who voted for Bush (at least in 2000) who has a very gifted child in a good Northern Va. public school system. She gets very upset by what she sees as the impact of NCLB on that system and her daughter's education.
i.e. Enforcing and/or leading to mediocrity, while not helping the smart kids at all. I helpfully pointed out to her that her child was not being "left behind", because she didn't need help, and that mediocrity was a step up for many kids. That didn't comfort her much. But I'm not sure how one would/could target a program more appropriately.
S_A_M
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2. The point of the program was to help the less gifted students and it sounds like it is working. Once nintey percent of the students are learning to read and write then we can worry about coddling the gifted ones.
