The No Child Left Behind Act

[Cynthia]

Iran and Iraq were ZERO threat to Americans in America. How the hell is Iran going to attack the US in North America? It isn;t.

As for Israel, that IS NOT OUR PROBLEM, any more than who runs Kashmir or Sri Kanka is not our proble,m. Other than diplomacy, we need to stay out of that one and treat both sides the same.

And yes! we need LESS military. Too much, and we get more wars.

Why do you think Sweden and Switzerland don;t run about invading other countries for the past 400 years?

Because they lack the stuff to do it with.

The US should have stayed the eff OUT of WWi. Had they done that, there would have been no Hitler and no WWII.
Diplomacy could have prevented Korea. Vietnam was a huge mistake, made possible by too many weapons and assholes like LeMay and the Dulleses a-spoiing for a fight.

This crap about how we have to be able to flatten any other nation on the planet is just a lot pf propaganda to make big bucks for the military industrial complex.

We need to ditch them, and soon.

Well, Xavier, we disagree on these points. We are not anywhere near Sweden or Suisse, first of all. Of course they don't have an army. Switzerland is the soft spot of the  nations'brain since the beginning of time .

You really think that we should not have entered WW1? Hmmm, and that if we hadn't Hitler would not have taken over Germany and millions of Jews would be alive today??  ok , well, you must know more about the history of war than I.
I know you know mroe about history, but common sense is not in your thread of thinking, with all due respect, X0.
We can not go unprotected in this world today...because too many nations really do not like us. Iran doesn't like America....you think they wouldn't step right into a conflict against us? Think again. Maybe not the way it is now, but I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. Conflict is conflict. War isn't popular. But, it can be an ugly reality. I maintain that we should not have invaded Iraq. I agree with you hold heartedly there.....It's the "other guy" we need to be very careful that we do not take for granted. The fact that war has been a part of life for too long ( I admit)....doesn't mean that we should throw away the guns and fight with fists.
Would we drive a car without seatbelts because we know our driving record is spotless? No. It's the OTHER GUY who's record aint so spotless and we are dead in the impact.

Safety and protection must be a part of all life....sadly, war has been a part of that. Al Pacino...."They just pull me right back in". That is reality.

[Amianthus]

There were disagree. I am saying that the expectations is 100% according to the information I have received. 95% participation rate.

If only 95% are "participating" then you cannot have 100%. Even if they want 100% of kids to meet the goals, each state is only required to have 95% meet them.

As I said, the law only requires 95% of the kids (outside of those with disabilities) to meet the goals set by the state. This gives plenty of "wiggle room" for those not diagnosed with disabilities.

[Amianthus]

So, many poor, ELL, disadvantaged children are at a "disadvantage"....and yet they are counted at part of the 100% on grade level by 2014 group.

Again, the law only requires 95% to meet grade level by 2014. And the state sets a different "grade level" for those with disabilities.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Any 100% figure for anything is unattainable, period.

Hardly anything is ever 100%

Even Ivory soap was supposed to be 99.44% pure. Of course, it isn't. The soap part may be nearly pure soap, but the ads concealed the "undiscosed ingredient, namely, air.


That is why it floats. It has air whipped into it, so you are buying what looks like a larger bar of soap with air whipped into it.

Normally soap is heavier than water, and sinks.

[Plane]

The last time that the USA had less than the strongest military in the world , was shortly before WWII.

At that time our military strength was less than top ten , and tyrants who wanted to carry on war in Europe and Asia could make their plans without worrying about US strength.

I don't see how weakness serves peace , as long as we are so strong we can work on trying to be very responsible with that strength and the world has a policeman.

When we return to the days of keeping only small strength on hand , with small stocks and small professional corps, we give up the influence on decisions of war made in foreign governments and NGO warfighters.

I think WWIII hasn't really happend yet , partly because we were working to prevent it. In exactly the way we were not working to prevent WWII.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I think WWIII hasn't really happend yet , partly because we were working to prevent it. In exactly the way we were not working to prevent WWII.

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Yeah, sure. Who do you suppose we were supposed to fight it with?

I the history of this country, everytime they have armed for a war, we have had one. Vietnam is a prime example. There was no reason whatever to get involved there.

Dwight Eisenhower said "No land wars in Asia", and our worst mistakes were in getting involved land wars in Asia. Iraq is another prime example of war for war's sake.

[Plane]

Communism had to be resisted , keeping this resistance below the level of all out war was a decision made over and over by American and Soviet administrations.


I once read that Greek warriors would sometimes face off holding their heavy sheilds and fight only a little for a long time , useing insults instead of action to carry the audience, after a while one of them would make a mistake that the other could exploit or one of them would tire from just danceing about in all that armor , then the tired one would yeild and not need to die in the duel.


There was no choice but to resist Communism , the details in which the means and strategy of this resistance was done was what choice was offered.