“NO! Children are Left Behind.” Up until the very end of an American student’s primary education, whether it be from a G.E.D. (General Education Development) or a high school diploma, they are forced to go through an outdated system whose flaws have been prevalent since at least the 1980s. During this time there was a massive push from Ronald Reagan on altering or down right removing American schools. It was his original campaign for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education that started to bring forth evaluation of a school’s: efficiency, effectiveness and ability to teach the required material in a challenging yet engaging way. His campaign was based around the idea of ultimately removing Federal control of schools, to which, “[t]he vast majority of parents can figure out for themselves how to educate their children and how to …show more content…
from Columbia University in 1991 (Biography.com Editors, Paragraph 4), had once agreed with Reagan's words by stating, “When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning” (Neil Tyson). Modern presidents are getting farther and farther away from Reagan’s initial campaign as evident from legislature signed by George W. Bush in 2002 labeled the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The act’s purpose is to, “significantly increased the federal role in holding schools responsible for the academic progress of all students … ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students … States did not have to comply with the new requirements, but if they didn’t, they risked losing federal Title I money” (Klein, Paragraph 5). NCLB leads the hands of states to enact the policy by way of palm greasing rather than logical reasoning that would support an educational revolution the school systems have longed to require. This exact action sets forth a shortcoming in the ties between family and