YOUR statement: "In our view, children can't be forced to learn by bureaucratic laws like No Child Left Behind. Since income levels are the best indicator of how well a child learns, this program appears to be a misguided policy of punishing the teachers of the poor for the fact that their students are not rich."
I disagree...Firstly, the failure of NCLB is because teachers "teach" to the test...and there has been no improvement in learning, of course due to that technique. ALSO, "a rich family" does not guarantee a child will learn..PARENTING is the best indicator...and it is not simply a commodity available only to "the rich"