Has any other public school teacher out there noticed how frighteningly similar the philosophy of the government in this story is to the philosophy of the NCLB advocates?

100% proficiency in our schools could only be achieved if "proficient" came to mean "basic." Wait. It still wouldn't be achieved. Perhaps the "i" world ear buds will evolve into Harrison Bergeron's type after all...

20th century dinosaur teacher in California - we encouraged positive competition and strong work ethics, and our kids learned!!! We didn't need API scores to tell us either...