Teacher Town Hall - Education Nation

I was not able to post my comments on Education Nation for some reason, but will post them here. I really don't mean to sound negative, but I get tired of hearing politicians (Democrat or Republican) make promises with no follow-through. NCLB has been detrimental to our public schools - why we haven't created something to improve it baffles me. What we are doing in America isn't working. Waiting on our government to fix it may never happen. Therefore, I feel that individual school districts must make the necessary changes to improve education for their community. I believe many public schools are taking matters into their own hands to improve education. USD 418 is one of them. I'm so thankful that my children attend school in this district because of programs such as C-3 - this makes sense. I look forward to other positive changes that will come out of our district.