AFT members have not been shy when it comes to NCLB and flaws that must be fixed in the law before it is reauthorized. Here is a sample of your comments posted at both the "AFT: You Decide 2008" Web site and at the new NCLB special section of AFT online, www.aft.org/fixnclb.

We are overtesting our children and not educating them in a comprehensive way. We are leaving out major areas of the curriculum.
—Rebecca Palacios, Corpus Christi, Texas

Low-achieving students are robbed of their electives in order to be placed in two math and two English classes in an attempt to increase their standardized test scores.
—Victor Malo-Juvera, United Teachers of Dade (Fla.)

Teachers have to teach to the test in order to fulfill the law's requirements so that the school will not be sanctioned.
—Ellen Schneider, Chicago Teachers Union

Everything we do is focused on passing the TAKS test, and the pressure on students, teachers and administrators is crippling.
—Susan Michael, Houston Federation of Teachers

I would like [decision-makers] to see the challenge of meeting the individual needs of students when there are too many students in each class.
-Linda Tremml, United Federation of Teachers, New York City

We have the skills and knowledge to help our students, but not enough money to keep these programs going.
—Judith Lindquist, Thief River Falls (Minn.)