School Beat: Son of NCLBLisa Schiffbyline‚ Feb. 15‚ 2007If you need a does of black humor, just pick any random piece of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. This law is replete with outrageous expectations disingenuously posing as the simplest of matters. My favorite joke of the moment comes from the section that details the requirements for involving parents for schools receiving “Title I” funds designed to assist low-income kids. This portion contains a whole host of must do items for schools to implement that sound great on paper but are completely divorced from reality. The best one is where schools are informed that in order to encourage more parent participation they should feel free to provide parents transportation to and from school events. |