The 2002 No Child Left Behind act was designed to hold every public school to certain standards ensuring that the American education system remains among the best in the world.
Each year, more and more schools aren’t measuring up, and it appears ‘stupid’ children are to blame.
The No Child Left Behind act ties federal funding to standardized test results, and since many students in high-needs schools fail to meet the minimum requirements, the schools have suffered serious budget cuts.
Experts say these ‘stupid’ children are holding the rest of the ‘normal’ children back from reaching their full potential.
“If it wasn’t for the dumb kids in my class, we could afford new text books for the regular students,” said one teacher from a high-needs school district that asked to remain nameless. “How are we supposed to teach social studies when our books say the US only has 49 states?” she added.
What little funding high-needs schools receive must go to the ‘stupid’ children in the hope that they might become slightly less stupid and stop ruining the test scores for everyone else. This creates a vicious cycle, though, as each year the ‘normal’ kids become stupider due to the lack of funds.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama recently laid out an $18 billion education plan that would no longer tie federal funding to test scores, and even the ‘stupid’ children agree that just makes sense.
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