No Child Left Behind - Broken From the Beginning (Facebook)

Back in 2010 or so, I created a Facebook Group specifically for bitching about and spreading information on the negative effects of the No Child Left Behind Act. This was a terrible policy and law brought to us by the George W. Bush White House, and it needed to be repealed or heavily overhauled. This did happen in 2015, when NCLB was replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act.

My main complaint about the NCLB was that while it had a laudable goal of improving schools, the actual method seemed to be draconian in nature. For any schools or school systems that struggled, the method seemed to be to restrict or narrow their budget. Reduce federal or state funding for any school that didn't improve. But that's not really how education works. If a school system is struggling, they need MORE money and support instead of less.

I had forgotten about the group I created, as it didn't really go very far. I'm archiving some of the links I posted here just for my recollection. Most of them were to similar groups with similar goals.

• Missouri Assessment Program - this was likely an unofficial local business page automatically created by FB and managed by no one.
• President Obama's 'No Child Left Behind' Overhaul Plan - Associated Content - www.associatedcontent.com/article/5728900/president_obamas_no_child_left_behind.html - domain down - but here's a more official page.
• And for this one, I said "Oh, yay. Your children's private information is being shared with the military thanks to the NCLB Act. This site deserves a page / group of it's own. Read more:" - Leave My Child Alone
• I posted: "Quote posted May 2007:
  With support for NCLB/Helter-Skelter faltering in Congress as the country wakes up to the stupidity of the change strategies and the damage being done to its schools, No Child Left has accompished its goal, the repeal or drastic amendment of the law. Publication of the journal stopped with the May 2007 issue but the site will remain as an archive of articles exploring the distortions, simple-minded thinking and fraudulent notions hidden within this dangerous experiment."
• I posted: "This site was active prior to 2007/05 and was dedicated to revision of NCLB. In that month, they posted an update that they had reached their goal of bringing attention to the issue. I'm not sure I agree, but this looks like a good place for more information." No Child Left - Committed to Repeal of NCLB/Helter-Skelter - nochildleft.com - domain down
• I posted: "There are three groups on Facebook called No Teacher Left Behind:" and only one of which was still live at this point.
• I posted: "A well-established group with shared goals." - Leave No Child Behind?? - and then I commented that I wished I'd found that group first before creating my own.
• And I posted a link to another group: Abolish NCLB (No Child Left Behind)

That was fun, if I recall. It was short-lived and I closed the group shortly thereafter. This probably marked my first foray into getting heavily political on Facebook. Perhaps I just needed to do something more than rant.

Hey wait... Why am I back on Facebook? More about this later...