The president doesn't understand that the damage to education has already been done

NCLB just finished a decade of gutting our inner city schools and just as states like California and Texas are beginning to realize that high stakes testing does more harm than good, the president issues his NCLB waivers to ten states.

Obama like many people not living in poverty do, ignores the affects of poverty on education. In case you didn’t know it, poverty is the number one quantifiable measurement determining how a student does in school. Children who live in poverty don’t do as well, but instead of pointing to the obvious, Obama blames schools for their neighborhoods and the income level of their children’s parents. He says the children who go to the school in the suburb whose parents are affluent are doing well why aren’t the inner city schools after all everything is equal.

Well sir everything is not equal and gutting neighborhoods and closing schools and blaming teachers and shipping kids to charter schools is not going to make then equal.

We need to put additional resources into those schools and come up with programs that fit the children’s needs. Longer school days, longer school years and multiple curriculums that teach the arts the skills and the trades. Bussing kids across the city is the president’s answer and quite frankly we tried that and it didn’t work.

He has let down the nations children… again.