Tutor Program Offered By Law Is Going Unused

By Susan Saulny - February 12, 2006 - New York Times

Four years after President Bush signed the landmark No Child Left Behind education law, vast numbers of students are not getting the tutoring that the law offers as one of its hallmarks.

Whenever the grades for rich people's children drop even a little, they get a tutor and help get the grades back up. No Child Left Behind offers this same opportunity for the poor students in any system where the schools are failing. However for some reason our education establishment does not feel this is worthy of mentioning to parents. With amazing arrogance the first explanation of the education establishment to the reason that they are only using about 10% of the money allocated is "that the program is allotted too little federal money"!

Knee jerk answer. Always this knee jerk answer. Too little money. Though we spend more than twice as much money on our failed and failing schools here in America as in the most successfull countries, the only answer you ever hear from the education "professionals" in America is too little money. Now they give that as their answer for not spending money that was allocated to them? That they could not bother since it wasn't enough?

Bertie County Schools clearly are failing. Could you use this money to arrange tutors for your kids?