Ooh, "Prioritize", that was a sharp observation, but the truth is NCLB is a bad joke. The district can't control what fools do in Washington. Believe me when I tell you that in a year or so no school district in the nation will meet the standards of NCLB unless they cheat.

Time to come home:

Wrong on all accounts, but thank you for displaying how ignorant some Americans are.

McCain sang bomb, bomb, bomb Iran – not Iraq. He did this in answer to a question from a member of the audience that asked when we were going to send an “airmail message to Iran.”

“This started a war for weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist”????????? Him singing this song started the war?

McCain opposes the draft. Two black congressmen – Rangel and Conyers, both dumbocrats – want the draft reinstated. They claim that it is “racist” to not have a draft.

What is wrong with the draft other than the dodgers? It would give some credence to those that complain about the soldiers going over there now against their will. They joined of their own free will, what did they think would happen? Everyone, male and female, should be eligible. I beleive all kids need some sort of boot camp to learn repsect that parents are not teaching anymore. And before anyone says it, I am retired military, my husband is still military and I have a son in Marine Corps boot camp, of his own choice. I am proud of my service, my husband and my son. No I don't want to see them killed in war and I feel for those who have lost, but I am tired of listening to everyone whine and complain and blame the military.

Prioritize-Well I don't know enough about the NCLB act or school taxes to comment, but what I do want to say is that I felt my children were short-changed in the education department last year. Actually the last few years, but getting worse it seems each year. It seems as all they do is train for the MAP testing. While I know the scores of MAP are important for school funding, but so is my child's education, a real education! Not one where if time is running short, so lets skip over particular sections since they aren't on the MAP test! I don't need my child "trained" on how to properly answer certain questions on the MAP; I need them to get a well-rounded education...one which INCLUDES the basics. Fortunately my kids take their own initiative to learn outside of school, but I have seen some of their classmates suffer for it. Many parents have this gripe about the school district. Even teachers are stressed because of the pressure from administration for higher MAP scores. There has to be a solution.

There is an old saying "Entreched beliefs are never changed by facts. This is apparent in certain peoples' blogs.
As an adult I can try to make my point without calling people and their beliefs names. This just indicates a child like mind of calling others names like when in grade school. Make your points with some professionalism and not
childish so called humer. Opinios are very good when they are presented in a professional manner. I guess some in schools before "no child left behind" did not learn the art of presenting a well presented opinion and not just blowing it out their ear.

Of course, the same name callers will, no doubt, have a rebuttal to this in their name calling way.

SuzyQ:

Well said and I think this is true all over the United States since each state has a compariable test.