No Child Left Behind and it's impact

Many researchers claim that No child should be left behind. In my opinion, that is totally not true. If a student is lacking participation, work, and effort then I would enforce that they be left behind. Many people may try to solve this problem with such attributes as summer school.

To me, summer school is just another way for the students to do the same thing as they did in the duration of that year in school. What could a student really learn in six weeks that they could not cover in nine months? Something is just not adding up how could this short period of time possible help the students if a whole three trimesters didn't?

I understand that most people do not want to see children in the same grade again however you get what you put out. If you give nothing, you get nothing. I believe that summer school should only be available to the students who posses the characteristics of a true hard working student who just was not able to produce that in their work. Their is a difference between students who work hard and ones who hardly work, so you decide.

This has truly effected our schools all over the area. The fact is that we have certain students in certain placements where other students who want to be should be there. These hard working students have been denied an education at the school of their choice because it is flooded with students who don't deserve it. In my opinion, we could be losing a lawyer or a doctor to foolishness.

In conclusion, My feelings on the "no child left behind" is of non-tolerance. If I were to become one of the boards of administration I would put a stop to this insanity in a heart beat. In fact this should be a law that you get what you deserve and in most cases this may be crucial but so be it. I would rather hurt the feelings of a non-working child than take away someone who could probably save your life in the near by future
_Cynthia King_