For those of you who don't know already, I'm going to school at night -- slowly but surely I'm on track for an MS in Education to teach 7th grade English. You cannot mention the No Child Left Behind Act to ANY practicing teacher I've met. And I don't buy the GOP attack response. Kerry voted for a law. Bush has refused to make it a funding priority. And what I hear consistently from teachers is that these unfunded mandates are not bringing low-performing schools up. It's dragging high-performing schools down. That can't be good, as I'm fond of saying.