The No Child Left Behind Act : worth nothing

The No Child Left Behind act is doing nothing but making urban area children feel stupid. All the standardized tests and so on is doing nothing but teaching them how to remember things just for a test and never think about it again.
The No Child Left Behind act focuses on the student teacher relationship too much, making it seem like it's the teachers' fault for all things that kids don't know or forget. But what about the things that could be going o in the child's life like poverty, depression, and neglect from parents peers and other things. Why doesn't the NCLB ACT single out these factors and create the NCLB Act around those kinds of things. Let's face in Most urban schools may never catch up to rural and suburban schools, due to the lack of funds, the way that the children act and the fact that everyone already thinks that they are stupid to begin with. Has anyone ever thought that it is not the teachers fault, the schools fault, but to look at the parents and their situations before making a teacher and the school accountable for the students actions.
The NCLB Act has not proven to be working as written in the bill, but proven in other ways to make it work. This should tell everyone something, that this crap does not work.
I found that a teacher has posted some things about the NCLB act on ther blog the address is http://damnthatscool.com/Comments.asp?BlogID=517. This teahcer is stating alot of the facts also if you want to learn more about the NCLB act visit nochildleftbehind.com

Did Vote or Die work?

As voting day came, P.Diddy preped and voted, not only that but he tried that very day to get youth to vote. According to him he was up at 5 o' clock in the morning prepping himself.
P. Diddy said that he made history with a lot of young people voting, but that was just in New York, he admitted that many minorities and young people didn't vote this election but he said that many people came up to him and admitted that they were first time voters and that they did it because of him.
So in some way it did work, but it really didn't work in his favor.
P. Diddy wanted Bush out of office, what happened, Bush is still here. P. Diddy has recognized his faults in influencing people to vote, and that is not to take sides. To me that is the main concept of running an organization that is world wide in order to get a variety of different people to vote. And to get avariety of differ communities involved.
P. Diddy acnoledged the fact the Choose or Lose and Rock the vote help out his campaign alot but was it them that let P.Diddy down, or do people not like to vote? Especially minority or young people when they should have the say for their future. P. Diddy had alot to say about his campaign so you can got to, http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/headlines/news.jhtml?id=1493383 to find out more. The election went well, but it would have benn better if Kerry won and more people (young people) voted.