Re:No Child Left Behind doesn't matter (Score 1)

The public education system has been failing gifted students since long before No Child Left Behind.

Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind seems purposefully designed to cause spectacular failure. If you require every child in a school to meet certain standards, but provide little assistance to struggling schools (financial or otherwise), you'll quickly see resources directed away from the gifted students (they're passing already), good teachers leaving the system (they didn't get into the profession just to teach the minimum), and parents looking for a way out of the system entirely (assuming they can afford it).