Tuesday, August 11, 2009

No child left behind

I live in the great state of Texas where we proudly have No Child Left Behind. This is one of the reasons that I am now a SAHM and home school my special needs kiddo. For those of you not familiar with this I have found the best description of the policy to share with you.

No Child Left Behind Football Style

1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable. If after two years they have not won the championship their footballs and equipment will be taken away UNTIL they do win the championship.

2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time even if they do not have the same conditions or opportunities to practice on their own. NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities of themselves or of their parents.

ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL!

3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own, without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren’t interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don’t like football.

4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th game. It will create a New Age of Sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimum goals.

If no child gets ahead, then no child gets left behind.

If parents do not like this new law, they are encouraged to vote for vouchers and to support private schools that can screen out the non-athletes and prevent their children from having to go to school with bad football.

3 comments:

  1. Vouchers will never work, they will never allow them. If they wanted to do the best thing for the kids they would scrap the entire public school system. Another bar by which you judge the intelligence of the federal government.

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  2. I agree with the vouchers and sadly I don't think that enough of us can pull kiddos out of school to make an impact either. So for the majority of caring adults we are in a lose/lose situation.

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  3. Why exactly is it bad for someone to win? So, I guess the new philosophy is that you can't be the best if you work hard? Scary. Wanna come homeschool G when the time comes?

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