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I’ve been opposed, for many practical reasons, to No Child Left Behind since it was first proposed.  Now that it’s been in practice for a few years, its flaws have become more and more obvious.  In certain school districts, children who were not able to perform were responsible for a significant percentage of the failure level, not the remaining students or the teachers.  In certain districts, numbers were pumped by sending special needs students out of district.  In others, where scores were about as high as they could get, schools failed because they couldn’t improve.  It’s nuts.  Well, I happened to cllick on a link today that illustrated one of the biggest failings, the first on my list above, from a first-hand perspective.  It’s an entry on a blog written by a special education teacher, and it should be on Mr. Bush’s reading list, too.