I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

As this semester, and thus this journal, come to a close, I’m finding that the whole experience wasn’t as painful as I thought it was going to be.  I’m not very tech-savvy, so having to do such an assignment, with RSS feeds, Google Reader, and a blog site that wasn’t LiveJournal, was very daunting at the beginning.

I learned that schools throughout Michigan and the country are facing the same problems from No Child Left Behind, and that there are people attempting to reform the legislation when it comes up for renewal.  Also, parents are starting to understand why NCLB isn’t working, and are joining the side of teachers and administrators in denouncing the bill.  However, policy-makers are still in support of the bill as-is, and some even feel that grading standards are not standardized enough.  I guess the present system is too complicated to create accurate statics, because statics are the most important thing when it comes to education. /sarcasm

If more parents become educated on the dangers of setting such standards as NCLB demands, they will be able to use their influence in elections and pressuring their representatives to take proper action in reforming No Child Left Behind.

Anyway, that was my rather scattered summarization of a semester’s worth of blogging, but I do feel like I have learned a lot on the subject and actually have some hope for the future.