"No Child Left Behind" Letter to the Editor

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Apply policy elsewhere

I believe the citizens of this great country have the right to demand that the No Child Left Behind nonsense be redefined and enacted for other professionals.

Let’s see, how about No Patient Left Behind? All doctors must save and make healthy each and every person they see, regardless of age, genetics, diets or disease. We should legislate that we’ll all live forever in happiness and health.

How about No Tooth Left Behind? Dentists must save every tooth in their patients’ heads, regardless of extenuating circumstances: sugar intake, diet, negligence. How about No Crop Left Behind? Farmers can’t lose even one plant, regardless of weather conditions, supply and demand, pests or diseases.

How about No Merchandise Left Behind ? Everyone who markets products must sell every single thing in the store with nothing left over, regardless of economy, supply and demand or need.

How about No Defendant Left Behind ? Public defenders must never lose a case. How about No Plaintiff Left Behind? Prosecutors must never lose a case. (Hey, everybody wins.)

How about No Heathens Left Behind? Everybody in the world must become a Christian. Everybody goes to Heaven-no matter what.

Teachers are the only human beings in America who are held to this ridiculous standard. God himself does not reach all of his children, but teachers have to. This legislation is a horrific violation of the civil rights of teachers in this country. It is clearly discriminatory and should be repealed.

DONNA HUMPHRIES
North Little Rock