# Obama making big changes to No Child Left Behind

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-making-big-changes-to-no-child-left-behind/597379>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 23, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-making-big-changes-to-no-child-left-behind/597379 "2011-09-23T20:22:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-making-big-changes-to-no-child-left-behind/597379/1 "2011-09-23T20:22:35Z")

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As a mother to 4 school aged children, I was so glad to read that some provisions of this flawed bill will be scrapped.

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> Under the plan Obama outlined, states can ask the Education Department to be exempted from some of the law’s requirements if they meet certain conditions, such as imposing standards to prepare students for college and careers and setting evaluation standards for teachers and principals.
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> Despite allowing states to do away with the approaching 2014 deadline, Obama insisted he was not weakening the law, but rather helping states set higher standards. He said that the current law was forcing educators to teach to the test, give short shrift to subjects such as history and science, and lower standards as a way of avoiding penalties and stigmas.

It’s about time!

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-making-big-changes-to-no-child-left-behind/597379/2 "2011-09-23T20:46:30Z")

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Hell yes! That 2014 deadline was killing every school in the country.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-making-big-changes-to-no-child-left-behind/597379/3 "2011-09-23T23:45:37Z")

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I’d rather see that whole mess scrapped entirely, but I’ll take what I can get.