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There are many reasons why the, "No child left behind" proposal was a good idea. They had the right motives, but were they for the wrong reasons? Their goal was to raise the standards in order to achieve better test results and create a smarter generation. The major fault in this movement is that trying to have everyone achieve the best and graduate is an unrealistic proposal. There will always be those who are meant to be our plumers and our construction workers. If there weren't we would be in a bit of a sticky situation. The school district and the state of California are overlooking at the signs of help needed by each individual child. It is as simple as telling the teachers that there is a new cirrculam to follow and make sure every child is brought up to pace and gets the information. This is not only putting the teachers in a bad position, but it has now created an unobtainable goal to reach. The state has made it very clear to us now that this plan was to cover up what they really messed up on. They knew test scores were falling and it was making them look bad, so the state proposed a different solution. Rather than taking the problem and going to the roots and helping each individual prepare for the real world, they decided to take the easy route and make every single student pass the same levels of difficulty.