Sufficiency resolution put before Alamo school board

Okay, in any other business the worse you perform, the less money you make, right? Isn't that how business works? Our schools are more of a mess then they have ever been, and simply throwing money at them may appear an easy solution, but is only the first step in repairing decades of neglect and ineptitude.

The "mess" you refer to is the result of No Child Left Behind and its inane requirements to test, not teach. Go to the web siite modbee.com and look up the opinion article of Bob Herbert. Fund the schools, let them teach the subjects that were taught in the past and get back to basics. Above all, work to keep kids in school to graduate and the school situation won't appear to be such a mess.

If Alamo didn't have to keep a separate school for many who are too lazy to dress themselves, we'd have more money.

I do agree on more actual teaching...less disney movies.

Schools are regulated to the point of absurdity. Public schools, in New Mexico and across the country, are in the same situation as the communist economies were in years ago. Despite a conservative administration that preaches states rights and self-reliance, the past seven years have been punctuated by massive federal intrusion into local educational standards and policy. Just like the managed economies of Soviet Russia and Communist China, we are dictating to schools from huge bureaucracies at the federal and state levels. The government knows best and the local schools are just factories to produce widgets. The answer isn't NCLB, nor is it even of more money. The answer is to allow schools to innovate and create and try some new things. I see the only way this will happen is to allow parents and students to choose. I believe in the free market system. Let it work with the schools. The current system doesn't work, not because teachers aren't working as hard as they can, but because the system isn't designed to adapt to changing demographics, populations, community needs, and personnel. Deregulate the schools and see what can be done.

We as parents should petition each state government and the Federal Government to do away with all state testing. All this testing does not prove a darn thing. Get back to teaching what these kids need to know to survive in the real world (reading, math & writing). When they get to college they struggle because all they know is state testing material. These tests do not prove that kids are learning either. Some kids are great test takers (lucky guessers) & others have test anxiety problems. We need to go back to if you don't do the work successfully then you don't pass to the next grade regardless of who your family is. Communicate with the parents & teachers to get the help for the ones not progressing.
This "no child left behind" program has done nothing to help our children. It has only hurt the kids that have to sit thru reviews of stuff they should have learned in the lower grades. I am not talking about basic review of the previous school. I have volunteered in my kid's classes for 4 grade & the teacher was reviewing how to add 2+2=4 for the group of kids that didn't get it. Take the TV's out of the classrooms too. Trust me teachers are using these as sitters for our kids.
So tell me how this is act was suppose to keep my kid & yours from getting further behind in their education.

P.S. What is the state doing with the Lottery Money?

Ron Jeske wrote:

The "mess" you refer to is the result of No Child Left Behind and its inane requirements to test, not teach. Go to the web siite modbee.com and look up the opinion article of Bob Herbert. Fund the schools, let them teach the subjects that were taught in the past and get back to basics. Above all, work to keep kids in school to graduate and the school situation won't appear to be such a mess.

Come on, Mr. Jeske, you have to admit that public schools have been a mess for many more years than can be blamed on NCLB. Yes, the results of this program was, and is, a farce. But the attempt was, I think, a result of the public education situation. Not by any means the cause.