Re: Football and NCLB

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 NCLB requires states to improve their schools until all their children are proficient. The biggest winners should be schools that serve large numbers of poor children, minority children, and children from homes where English is not the first language. Seems like this should be something to cheer about and if "No Child Left Behind-The Football Version" is the way teachers see NCLB, how sad for parents and children and for public education. 
  
 Art 
  
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Bussardre@aol.com
 To: arn-l@interversity.org
 Sent: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 5:10 PM
 Subject: [arn-l] Football and NCLB
 
    This was sent by a friend.   If it has been on ARN already, forgive. I had to purge a lot of mail in December when a family member was in the hospital.   Enjoy!   --Billee   This was posted on Teachers.net  Here's the football version of what is going on in education right now.  NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND---THE FOOTBALL VERSION  1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable. If, after two years, they have not won the championship, their footballs and equipment will be taken away UNTIL they do win the championship.  2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time even if they do not have the same conditions or opportunities to practice on their own. NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities of themselves or their parents.  ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL  3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own, without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.  4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th game. It will create a New Age of Sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimum goals. If no child gets ahead, then no child gets left behind.  If parents do not like this new law, they are encouraged to vote for vouchers and support private schools that can screen out the non-athletes and prevent their children from having to go to school with bad football players.  Re: No child left behind -     
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