No Child Left Behind

I know I'm not the only one that did something on the No Child Left Behind Act but I feel like this has affected me kind of or more of my mom the most for she is a teacher at a Jr. High and she has to deal with the NCLB Act all the time. The Act, that George W. Bush passed, had good intentions but in all reality it became a major problem for most public schools today. It created a lot of stress on teachers to change their style of teaching so that they can keep their jobs. For most teachers that meant teaching for the test rather than teaching for the gaining of knowledge. This also meant that their was a bigger use of standardize testing than testing that was giving by the teacher that probably knew how the students learned better than the government would. This also brought a bigger stress on school district advisors who had to keep making sure that the requirements were always met or they had to do a radical change and bring in new teachers for the whole school. This usually meant that the teachers that a lot of students felt comfortable with and were able to learn from were fired because of some bad test scores. The NCLB Act was literally probably one of the most detrimental Acts that effect public school usually resulting in a lot worse teaching and more stressful learning enviroments.