It is almost like the No Child Left Behind. That was someone's stupid brain fart too. No way are they ever going to get every child, because it is so costly to try to do. A lot of the schools out there just do not have the money or the teachers to do it with. Some of our best students come from home school also from small schools where teachers are actually allowed to teach, not to follow some idea that higher ups have planned and yes more of our tax dollars going to waste. Her in our small town the board voted to increase the tax mill (because they didn't have enough money to teach the kids) and then on the same page and in the same article they tell of how they were donating $25,000.00 to a walking path of CONCRETE that goes a mile around the school area for people to walk on. What a waste. They also forget that some places may not have computers or calculators so if they don't teach spelling, writing and math, how are the kids supposed to make it out there in the real world? Setting them up to live on the State system.