You could immediately grasp the flawed thinking behind President Bush's education policy just by its name: No Child Left Behind. That's an absurd, unachievable goal that can only be announced by a politician too long in the fantasy world in which government can do absoutely anything. Now comes President Obama to seek a change in the policy that would be even more delusional:
“We need to not only hold failing schools accountable, we need to help turn those schools around. In the 21st century, it's not enough to leave no child behind. We need to help every child get ahead,” Obama said, “What hasn't worked is denying teachers, schools and states what they need to meet these goals.”
Everybody absolutely equal in circumstance and opportunity and achievement and capability. Never happened in the history of the world and never will, but the utopian dream lives on, and we keep paying for the futility because we keep electing the clowns who spout the nonsense.
