NCLB a Racket Full of School District Cheaters

Legislators from states like Connecticut are getting wise to the criminal fraud called "No Child Left Behind" and are sounding off about it.

The NCLB is the latest in a number of phantom games being played by the bloated public school bureaucracy so that it might preserve itself at the expense of children.

The game is played like this: Annually, each state tests its schoolkids to see how they stand in math, reading and other areas, with a decided emphasis on math and reading. Theoretically, all student scores should count but that's not what is happening now.

Instead, minority kids -- who predominantly score chronically low on these tests -- are alllowed to take the test without their scores being counted, or duck the test entirely. That is, if the minority group in question has "too few" members a school, then that school can just keep those kids' scores from being reported because they represent groups that are "statistically insignificant.."

But if this sliver of minority kids -- say, from India, Japan or the Philippines -- scores way above everyone else (which these groups are inclined to do for some reason) then the districts count them! What a great system!

Bottom lines: Most scores from Western-state districts are simply wrong. Plus, the urban schools domkinated by Latino or black student populations will never get cut any slack because their majorities have to be scored.

End of story.

So the NCLB is worthless. So what? It's just another catastrophic blunder for the Bush administration.