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Submitted by Rajesh, Nov 8, 2006 05:11

It was indeed very shocking news that NYC laws don't permit tutoring from India. In fact it means NYC wants that all tutoring to be done through tutors who have earlier been tutoring and probably the very reason of birth of NCLB is that only. If they still want to keep going with same cause and then effect will obviously be same. If the input you are pouring is not improved how can you expect the outcome to be more effective. I am sure this is going to result in another NCLB and we can very well imagine the repercussions of this on the intellect of children who are undergoing the system governed by such laws. It will definitely create a situation when these children when grown up will undergo frustration and no one can now imagine how will that frustration take shape of.

It's good to have laws and regulations but these should be framed taking a long term perspective such that these don't backfire. In that case the very objective of such revolutions like NCLB goes not only futile but hazardous.

So i'd just wish that if these laws be reviewed, we will have the youth with high Intellectual Horsepower and a better world.

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