Don't leave us behind - Make us think! NCLB Education Crisis

From his hometown of Miami Springs, Florida representing all other US school children who are bored, uninspired and tired of a public system that is ignoring their needs and abilities, this precocious nine year-old wants to ask how ALL the presidential candidates plan to fix the NCLB law and it's negative residual effects.
The NCLB law is not working and leaving so many kids behind as a nation whether learning disabled, gifted or anywhere in between! As a direct result of this law and it's funding, the states are just using standardized practice test taking curriculum targeted at the minimum grade level standards rather than empowering children with knowledge to apply in novel situations in their future endeavors. The minds of our future leaders are at risk! HELP!
Whether democrat, republican, or independent this educational crisis issue for the 2008 election should be one of the front runners of concern. What plans do the 2008 Presidential candidates have to rescue American children from being left behind the rest of the educated planet? How will our children compete with highly skilled and prepared foreign educated students without improvement in our current US educational practices and standards?

Learning can and should be innovative, fun, enriching, challenging, and thought provoking rather than outdated constant monotonous rote memory practice to truly bring us on the cutting edge of 21st century technology and society. Also along with revamping the system, shouldn't more funding be directly committed to improving the education of our youth which is so closely woven into the future of each and every American?

special notes from the kid in the video:
ps - VOTE - make your opinions heard!
pps - Voting trivia
Tuesday was picked as a voting day in November for two reasons - one -the harvest was over and two - it gave people time to travel to the polls if on foot or by horse etc
Now with the modern convenience of cars, buses, subways etc what is stopping so many voters from making it out to vote??

In a modern world ...Think of it this way, Tuesday is perfect because having Monday come first is a reminder to vote tomorrow. You can even have a long weekend and still make it to vote.
Vote, do it and be counted because we kids are depending on you!

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[blackturtleus]

NCLB is such a scam! Hope your question gets picked! Good luck!

[tarog68]

I love it. How better to get spread the message than through a child's voice. Brilliant!! Continue to make videos, especially using your charming little actor. Have even some of your friends create their own videos with the same message. By having more people spread the word around, the better chance it has being heard.

[SuperDunGoofed]

OMG YESSSSSSSSS. This kid speaks the truth. Public schools just teach you how to take useless tests and how to conform to orders, no matter how stupid they are. Because of the flaw of American education, I have to read a lot. But that isn't a bad necessarily (for me). If didn't read a lot, I would be as dumb as all the other 15 year olds har har har...

[misspinkpunkykat]

That child has such an adorable voice. If I was animating my stories, I'd arrange for him to do some of the voices.

[XdisXesXwhyXimXhawtX]

I agree :( I'm very gifted, and my school could care less. no gifted programs whatsoever, and at other schools with gifted programs, they just make the work harder, but don't customize it for gifted students.

[ShinryuTheDestroyer]

The internet teaches me. =)

[RENATA304]

Great! I fight too!

[Angrywritergrrrl]

the nclb act leaves behind poor children, females, ethnic groups. gifted needs kids, special needs kids...yep bushes no child left behind propeganda leaves out just about everyone. it is done on purpose. a nation full of uneducated pple is easy to control

[davidesposito1]

@heart349

you would be suprised with my familiarity with what you speak.

I know teach for america has had a lot of reasearch into what makes the best teachers and it can ussually be seen from their accomplishments in the past.

Also, everytime somebody brings up an issue about how their are exceptions - honestly all data should be looked at in context - context is key in analyzing any educational data.

I see no reason we wont be able to understand more and more of the context understand

[davidesposito1]

@Gamera49

To be honest, from what I know during the times they do work is a pretty non-stop job.

They have a job where they take their work home - and they are not just a teacher in the classroom - they are a teacher at home and on the street.

Think about it that way.

What we need to do - is identify the best teachers and pay them a hell of lot more to keep them around - as teaching is hard to make money in - from the beggining - yet these teachers can leave and make more in private sec

[smodeski1]

Beautifully executed! Smart kid!

[heart349]

@davidesposito1 How do you propose that they determine that I am a higher performing teacher than others? Here is a cross-section of just one of the classes I had in another state: one girl who was picking up the pieces at home since her dad died one month before the test, a boy from a family that had been visited many times by child/family services who never found the cause of his bruises, and a girl with a baby sister in the hospital. Yep, they have nothing to worry about but the test.