No children but all teachers left behind

No children but all teachers left behind

With the onslaught of current educational rhetoric, rocky reform, and recent education regulations (dictates of No Child Left Behind legislation), teachers have increasingly been forced to focus on personal reality. On January 8, 2002, President Bush signed into Law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Basically, this law dictates a deadline of 2014 for all public schools to assure that all students be proficient in math and reading with no, not even one child to be left behind. 2010 is fast approaching and things are intensifying as schools struggle to get their own no child left behind acts together before the 2014 deadline. Meanwhile public officials, school administrators, and the press have continually woven intricate, though often difficult to understand, webs of wordy discussions concerning NCLB effectually binding our schools and, more so, our classroom teachers within dark cocoons that have a chaotic educational metamorphosis going on inside. Important but seemingly forgotten is the fact that at the center of this changeling, beats the ever weakening, strangled and often broken heart of a struggling teacher.