Left Behind or Forced Ahead?
Gina Telaroli December 3, 2007 | 3:44 pm EST

While students, teachers and lawmakers across the country fret about test scores, standards and students not being left behind, one young man and his father are suing their local school system for not leaving the young man behind.Beau Abela, 14 is angry that his school passed him on to secondary school when he wasn’t proficient in literacy and math skills were way below the level they should have been at. He is now worried that he won’t get an apprenticeship because he doesn’t have the necessary skills. While both Beau and his father acknowledge the school put a lot of effort into helping him learn, they are still angry that they passed him to the next level even though he wasn’t deserving.Want to know what exactly No Child left Behind entails? Visit the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center’s section on the act.With the upcoming primaries we are sure to hear lots on education and the current No Child Left Behind system. Listen below to what some Democratic hopefuls had to say in response to a question about NCLB and education:  

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