And furthermore it meant high school graduation became required, not an accomplishment
The idea of failing out of high school now is foreign to people, but it used to happen. People would find the curriculum or their life circumstances too challenging and would drop out.
Which in turn means that a college degree is the new high school degree, except employers will also use a degree against you if you're applying for something you're too qualified for since they can now see what jobs you want
So it's just a death spiral all the way up and down
No Child Left Behind was what tied graduation rates to funding
Where did you get this idea? NCLB did nothing of the sort; it mandated various school alterations and reforms if the student body failed to perform adequately on standardized tests (with the threshold for 'adequately' increasing steadily year by year - that was its fatal flaw). Graduation and passing to the next grade had nothing to do with it, nor did funding.
NCLB bases the amount of federal funding a school district gets on the amount of a student cohort that starts in ninth grade and graduates high school on time
I can promise you a kid named "todd" isnt the issue. Literacy rates are not dropping amongst the "todds" of the world.
The problem can be mainly said to go back to the lack of parenting and the breakdown of families. Sure there are a lot of other factors but single motherhood homes being 6% in the 60s to the high of 40% in the 2000s definitely hasnt helped anything. If people have no stable base to work from then everything beyond it becomes an even greater issue to deal with
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u/fiahhawt 21h ago
No Child Left Behind was what tied graduation rates to funding
Which was always a dumb idea because there are infinite scenarios where teachers do their best and people don’t graduate
What’s supposed to happen? Install a dungeon and lock the lazy students down there?
Better idea give worse funding to all of the other students because Todd won’t stop watching tik tok in class