Bush just got done speaking. He said no children have been left behind. Well?

C,D, and F schools are the very basis of our need for a voucher system. If the public schools are not performing, we must give the parents the choice to remove their child from that school and put him elsewhere, using the money that would have been paid into that public school system. Money is not the answer to the problems. Quality management is. We must hire teachers that are willing to teach and not just to feed information long enough to get those students to spit it back on a test. My stance on public education is well documented. Although I am a product of the Public School system and my mother is a teacher in that system, I can't say in good faith that the very system in which I grew up in is doing its job. There have been several children left behind and we need to fix it and quickly.

I think that's total bull. Many schools don't have enough funding, and therefore, education is not that great there. SO, explain to me how those getting minimal or poor educations are not "left behind." That's what I'd like to know. AND WHY IN THE HECK are there so many places that do not allow CHILDREN WITHOUT PERMANENT HOMES, (aka homeless or runaways) to be a part of a public school system. Look it up in the state statutes, many homeless children do not get proper schooling. They're left behind, on the streets, by this country. I think Bush needs to stop talking out of his butt. His approval ratings aren't going up anywhere, as far as I can tell.

I didn't see the specch, I have better things to do with my time, but if he really said that he lied. I live right outside of New Orleans where the school system has been in shambles for years. Those kids are lucky to finish high school with a 5th grade education. My son is in the best public elementary school in our area. The teacher claim they only have time to teach the basics and barely touch each subject, but the public schools in other staes (and the rpviate ones here) offer so much more. How can he say "no child left behind" when they are left behind every day just by walking into the classroom.