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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I..... disagree with many of his views. Especially on the No Child Left Behind act. It is a nice sentiment and has some redeeming features, but frankly, firing teachers and closing schools for poor performance on standardized tests is quite possibly worse than useless.
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I also do not love the no child left behind act but it did have some uses, helping students from low income families, who are statistically less educated and have less access to a good education, further them selves in school.
I love your statement of " quite possibly worse then useless" that is something that I will have to use in a conversation sometime.
It wasn't that much shorter then before speech wise but it was shorter due to less pausing for clapping.
Parts of the speech are usually given out a few hours prior to the speech so the media can have something to play with to keep busy before the big event.
I do not think that the President was trying to step closer to the Democratic majority but was more likely taking a more liberal stance on somethings so the next Democratic candidates can't use things such as tax cuts, No Child Left Behind Act, National Dept and the new fuel techonoligies can not be used on their platforms for the 2008 elections. That is common for a State of The Union address from a last term President to do near election year.