NCLB ??

After class last week, I was a little stunned to realize how confusing the information was during class dealing with No Child Left Behind. It seems to me that it is a very good potential idea to be brought about in school systems for children of this day but it also seems that it has not been entirely worked out to where it can work to its optimised level. In reading the piece on NCLB: Narrowing the Curriculum, it states the main point; improving schools and school districts curriculum in the mathematics and reading/language arts subjects. But in going back to the information and the way that it is broken down in class, it seems that it is shooting for an unrealistic goal of 100% optimum school level. By narrowing the curriculum, in my opinion, does not seem to fix the over all problem but only a small portion that makes up the big picture. I do not believe that taking out subjects that are not at a core level for NCLB but important in reiterating a student as a whole outside of school and for their life in the future, will be beneficial in the end. This directly coincides with my inquiry project question of the importance of activities and non core classes offered in school. I have a lot of questions and feel I need a little more information and understanding to what is the ultimate actions for the goal intended to meet.