No Child Left Behind Speaker

Yesterday morning I attended the speaking for English class. I feel really bad because I don't even remember his name. He discussed No Child Left Behind and the issues of our school system. The topic was uninteresting to me, but his tactics made me listen. I honestly feel that there is nothing that can be done to better any school system. No one can force anyone to learn. It has to come within the person to want extra knowledge to succeed. The school that I came from had every type of student attending. We had the brains, the bad, the stupid, the lazy, and the forced. By forced, I mean they only came to school because they were forced. All of us attended the same high school and many of us are scattered around doing different things. The school system is trying so many things such as uniforms, No Child Left Behind, and standardized test to gain improvement. I fail to understand why hasn’t anyone noticed that these changes are not helping? In my opinion, it is making things worse. No one likes all of these to be forced upon them. When you force people to do something, human nature usually makes people want to rebel. It all depends on the student. You can send every person to Yale for free, and there will still be people who will flunk out, drop out, or graduate. The curriculum does a play a part in WHAT we learn, but IF we learn depends on the students.