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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:31 |
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In what critics are calling a sign that President Bushës "No Child Left Behind" law is not delivering on its promise, an 11-year-old child in Toledo, Ohio, was left behind today.
On a day when millions of American children returned to school, the news that a child had been left behind came at a most inopportune moment for President Bush, who has repeatedly vowed that his educational policy would leave no child behind.
Zack Steidel, the Toledo boy who was left behind, seemed to be taking his newsworthy status in stride today.
"I didnët want to go to school anyway," said Mr. Steidel. "This way I can just stay at home and play Xbox, which totally rocks."
At the White House, spokesman Tony Snow tried to downplay the importance of young Mr. Steidel having been left behind.
"At this point
it is way too early to say that Zack being left behind means that ǃÚNo
Child Left Behindë does not work," Mr. Snow said. "He may have just
missed the school bus."
But education
expert Davis Logsdon says that "No Child Left Behind," which requires
that students pass standardized tests in order to advance to the next
grade, may be flawed at its core: "If that law had been around when
President Bush was in school, he would still be in seventh grade."
Elsewhere,
Medicare chief Mark McClellan resigned today, saying that he wanted to
devote the rest of his life to trying to understand the new Medicare
rules.
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Award-winning
humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author
of the new book "The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers."
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