Credonia
30-04-2005, 23:31
First and foremost, this is just a paper I wrote for my Advanced Composition class. It is by no means meant to be taken seriously, even tho its true. It's nothing but satire, which was the original purpose of the assignment. So, lets try to keep the personal attacks on my paper to a minimum. Thanks. Comments are more than welcome though. Enjoy!!!
-K. Sutton
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In 2002, President Bush passed the “No Child Left Behind Act”. This act laid out a plan to better educate America’s children, but if you have ever listened to him give a speech, you can tell that he was a child that was left behind. The legislature passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives states that it’s goal is to help our children to become more literate and educated. It’s a shame that it wasn’t passed 40 years ago, because Bush shows a primitive level of literacy compared to today’s kindergarten and elementary school students. From his horribly bad grammar usage to his stuttering and inability to pronounce simple words and phrases such as successful and allies, Bush is by far one of America’s funniest literacy-challenged Presidents in this country’s history.
The “No Child Left Behind Act” was designed for the purpose of ensuring that all children who are enrolled in school from kindergarten to 12th grade are properly educated and that the learning environments are equal, however, it’s quite interesting how none of America’s learning environments provide equal opportunities for students to learn. Schools that are located in urban cities and areas are not as ‘nice’ as those that are located in areas and school districts that have lots of money flowing into them by upper middle class and upper class tax payers. Often times, when you compare schools located in wealthy cities and towns with schools located in urban cities, one would see that schools in urban areas are more run-down, more dilapidated, and less appealing to schools in wealthy areas and cities. Believe it or not but learning environments contribute a lot to the amount of education the students receive. Students that attend nice looking schools that are nicely maintained and provide after-school programs and activities that interest and engage the students take more pride in their school and their education and are also more inclined to do better and excel in school, putting them in a much better position to receive a higher education.
In order to obtain equalized educational environments where students across the country receive the same top-quality education, billions of dollars would need to be allocated just towards the rejuvenation and beautification of each and every school across the country that is deemed not up to standard. Now, it’s a known fact that the U.S. has a $400 billion budget deficit. Well since Bush and Congress cut funding for education and put a majority of it towards defense, where will the money come from to help fund this project? Duh, it’s going to come from our pockets. That’s right, its time for another increase in taxes. Who’s going to get hit with this round of friendly tax increases? Certainly you don’t think the hard working, backbreaking, 5% of Americans that are more than filthy rich that are struggling to get by on life with just their 5 cars, all of which cost more than $100,000, their numerous multimillion dollar mansions located in exotic places such as on islands and in other countries, and their Swiss bank accounts that have millions and even billions of dollars worth of spending money in them, do you? Oh no! It wouldn’t be fair to tax them more because it wouldn’t be fair to them since they need all of their money and material possessions to survive. Instead, I have an idea. Lets increase taxes for the lazy middle and lower class citizens who aren’t working, who are on welfare, and who are unable to support their families. I mean, come on. Lets face it. Who needs to support their families? They aren’t important anyway. So what if inflation increases, causing the cost of food and groceries to skyrocket. So what if they can’t afford America’s rising cost of living. Who cares if they can’t get a higher-level education so that they can get jobs? Hell, there aren’t any jobs to give away anyway! Who cares if because of all this, they are forced into homelessness? You and I certainly don’t care because we’re part of the middle class, do we? Heck no! I want to be broke all the time. Hey! Maybe if they increase taxes even more, we would go homeless because we’re dirt broke. That would be great. Oh and you know what? We haven’t even increased the taxes enough to fund the educational programs, additional teacher schooling, and to pay for new textbooks, computers, and learning tools. How great is that? HAH! Not in my lifetime.
The “No Child Left Behind Act” is a good idea, in theory; however, it would be unrealistically possible to ensure that no child gets left behind. Unfortunately, there would have to be a drastic overhaul of America’s educational system in order to bring in more positive results. It is commendable that school districts around the nation are changing to comply with the act, however, until America comes out of its economic deficit, a great many of America’s children will undoubtedly be left behind.
-K. Sutton
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In 2002, President Bush passed the “No Child Left Behind Act”. This act laid out a plan to better educate America’s children, but if you have ever listened to him give a speech, you can tell that he was a child that was left behind. The legislature passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives states that it’s goal is to help our children to become more literate and educated. It’s a shame that it wasn’t passed 40 years ago, because Bush shows a primitive level of literacy compared to today’s kindergarten and elementary school students. From his horribly bad grammar usage to his stuttering and inability to pronounce simple words and phrases such as successful and allies, Bush is by far one of America’s funniest literacy-challenged Presidents in this country’s history.
The “No Child Left Behind Act” was designed for the purpose of ensuring that all children who are enrolled in school from kindergarten to 12th grade are properly educated and that the learning environments are equal, however, it’s quite interesting how none of America’s learning environments provide equal opportunities for students to learn. Schools that are located in urban cities and areas are not as ‘nice’ as those that are located in areas and school districts that have lots of money flowing into them by upper middle class and upper class tax payers. Often times, when you compare schools located in wealthy cities and towns with schools located in urban cities, one would see that schools in urban areas are more run-down, more dilapidated, and less appealing to schools in wealthy areas and cities. Believe it or not but learning environments contribute a lot to the amount of education the students receive. Students that attend nice looking schools that are nicely maintained and provide after-school programs and activities that interest and engage the students take more pride in their school and their education and are also more inclined to do better and excel in school, putting them in a much better position to receive a higher education.
In order to obtain equalized educational environments where students across the country receive the same top-quality education, billions of dollars would need to be allocated just towards the rejuvenation and beautification of each and every school across the country that is deemed not up to standard. Now, it’s a known fact that the U.S. has a $400 billion budget deficit. Well since Bush and Congress cut funding for education and put a majority of it towards defense, where will the money come from to help fund this project? Duh, it’s going to come from our pockets. That’s right, its time for another increase in taxes. Who’s going to get hit with this round of friendly tax increases? Certainly you don’t think the hard working, backbreaking, 5% of Americans that are more than filthy rich that are struggling to get by on life with just their 5 cars, all of which cost more than $100,000, their numerous multimillion dollar mansions located in exotic places such as on islands and in other countries, and their Swiss bank accounts that have millions and even billions of dollars worth of spending money in them, do you? Oh no! It wouldn’t be fair to tax them more because it wouldn’t be fair to them since they need all of their money and material possessions to survive. Instead, I have an idea. Lets increase taxes for the lazy middle and lower class citizens who aren’t working, who are on welfare, and who are unable to support their families. I mean, come on. Lets face it. Who needs to support their families? They aren’t important anyway. So what if inflation increases, causing the cost of food and groceries to skyrocket. So what if they can’t afford America’s rising cost of living. Who cares if they can’t get a higher-level education so that they can get jobs? Hell, there aren’t any jobs to give away anyway! Who cares if because of all this, they are forced into homelessness? You and I certainly don’t care because we’re part of the middle class, do we? Heck no! I want to be broke all the time. Hey! Maybe if they increase taxes even more, we would go homeless because we’re dirt broke. That would be great. Oh and you know what? We haven’t even increased the taxes enough to fund the educational programs, additional teacher schooling, and to pay for new textbooks, computers, and learning tools. How great is that? HAH! Not in my lifetime.
The “No Child Left Behind Act” is a good idea, in theory; however, it would be unrealistically possible to ensure that no child gets left behind. Unfortunately, there would have to be a drastic overhaul of America’s educational system in order to bring in more positive results. It is commendable that school districts around the nation are changing to comply with the act, however, until America comes out of its economic deficit, a great many of America’s children will undoubtedly be left behind.