No Child Left Behind

I realize I'm a little late on this, since it's already gone though, but after getting the details of the program from my nephew I'm a little worried. It seems that they keep the entire class at the pace of the slowest student. I'm not sure exactly what the point of this is, but some students will be smarter and some will be better in other areas than others.

This is not preparing them for life, nor is it more importantly fair to the students who are able to handle the work presented to them. Do the schools expect a professonal environment merely to set up pace with their lowest performers? While it may be a nice thought, encouraging that sort of mediocrity will never happen unless it's a company that is not at all making money or in the case of a non-profit corporation, achieving their goals.

Making sure every child gets an education is a noble goal, but making sure every child gets the same education merely holds those who are capable of doing better work back and not letting their talents show. All in all, it was presented as a good idea that suffered horribly in execution.