No child left behind?

From our discussions in class about literacy I heard a lot of things that I did not know about. The main thing I learned about is the “No Child Left Behind Act” that was enacted on May 23, 2001. Honestly I did not know very much about the act until we discussed it in class. From what I gathered in class about the act is that I honestly cannot believe it was passed. Starting with the punishment of the schools whose students do not test well. The way they punish them is ridiculous why make it harder on a school that is having trouble getting through to the students. Its like they do not want those schools to improve by giving them those budget cuts. Also if the school continues to have poor scores in certain curriculums they are supposed to give their students the choice to change to another school with better scores. Most of the time the schools that have lower scores are the schools in poorer areas so why punish those schools and make it harder for them to teach the kids I think those schools should not be punished I say that we try and help out those schools and I believe that when we do that we will see the results that they want which are higher test scores. But honestly can we score students literacy by a single scantron test. Any number of things can affect the outcome the score that the student gets, from an illness to the student just being tired. But unfortunately another system that works better has not been discovered yet. That’s why I think we should spend time and money on trying to find a newer better system.