Theater Review: No Child

In 2001 chairman George W. Bush proposed the No electric s concordr Left pot Act which compel cultivates to take bendion with the below average test scores. Due to this act schools ar essential to acquire their students take tests and have a veritable percentage increase in grades every year otherwise at that place would be consequences from a school being labeled as a requesting improvement to the extreme of having it privately run or shut down. The escape No infant written by Nilaja Sun acts as a direct commentary for the need of the No Child Left behind Act.In this prevail the characters and their actions have such a strong correlation coefficient to the real problems that students in under privileged societies in America salute as well as the need for reform in the tuition de break downment. (No Child Left shadow) The setting of the runaway is the school that seems unfit for children to be going to receive an education. The janitor describes the school The buil ding f every last(predicate)in apart, paint chipping, water damage, a whole in the fourth floor ceiling that aint been fixed since 87, all the bathrooms on the third floor, they all broke.The school is similarly described by the janitor as having one hundred thousand dollars worth of security transcription which includes two metal detecting machines, seven metal detecting wands, quintuplet school guards and three NYC police officers. all told armed. (Sun 5) These descriptions of the school itself advance that education is non the autochthonic focus of the leadership in the school district. It seems that the funding that the school is being given is not being use to its full potential for the benefit of the students education. In public schools across the country this is the actual setting of how the school can be described.With the No Child Left Behind act schools are pushed to make education the primary focus in order to give students an equal chance at life afterwardswar ds. (No Child Left Behind) As pass ond earlier the characters have a strong correlation to students and educators in real life. Being a teacher is described as being underpaid, unappreciated, and underpaid job in this grisly universe. (Sun 6) The tenth grade var. in this play is group of disrespectful, forlorn kids that are just pushed around all day and treated as if they are convicts themselves.It seems that in this story every person who is in a position to make a positive change whether it be the parents or the teachers push it off on someone else to do. The first teacher that the earshot encounters is a woman named Ms. tammy who is underpaid and unappreciated as well as blatantly disrespected by her students and has no control over them. It gets to the point that Ms. Tam in verity ends up leaving because she cannot handle the students. Prior to the No Child Left Behind act new teachers were only postulate to have bachelors degree, be fully certified and to have a subje ct offspring knowledge generally through tests.After the act was implemented, the standards for all teachers were required to be highly qualified which is different in every state regardless if they are new or have reached their tenure. The act also makes it so the teachers salary could be raised or dropped depending on how the students performed on their tests. By doing this teachers are required to take accountability for their students which requires them to go higher up the bare minimum. (No Child Left Behind) The next teacher that the audition sees interaction with between the students is Ms. Sun.Right off the bat the audience sees that she is someone that not only cares well-nigh what she is teaching but about the students that she is teaching. She lays down rules about being in class on time, eating in class and being respectful to everyone. She gets the students to very care and want to take part of the play that she was hired to be in charge of a play that the student s previously scoffed at. By getting the students to take part of the play actually gives them a greater hope for their future that they dont have to end up hopeless, a characteristic that society has already label them as being.These are the teachers that the No Child Left behind act is instituting, teachers that have the readiness to push their students to have an equal chance that privileged and well meliorate students have. Ms. Sun is not here to do the bare minimum required she is here to make a change in students who just need guidance. (No Child Left Behind) The students are probably the most important characters in this play in correlation to the No Child Left Behind act. The audience gets to see the transformation that begins to take place in the students after a teacher who goes above and beyond what her peers are doing with their students.In the inception of the play the students upliftedly characterize themselves as the smite class ever. Mrs. Kennedy later on refute s this claim by saying, Look, I understand that they consider themselves the worst class in school. News Flash theyre not even close. (Sun 21) It is this description that the audience can understand that although this class is pretty horrible in that respect are worse classes which shows that it is the school as a whole that is impuissance at their job. Towards the end of the play the students have done a sail through 180.Not only are they wanting to take part of the play but they are doing what they need to for class such as masking up on time, not eating in class and not being disruptive. One of the students who were initially the leader of not doing the play actually says that he is looking forward to taking part of it next year. All that it took was a determination of the teacher to push past the expectations of failure of these students and engraft a way to reach them. At the end of the play alternatively of every student being a failure as to begin with thought some go o n to Harvard while others make proud livings for themselves.The play was a strong motivator that provoked emotion and the responsibility to help the cause. The play was more than than direct commentary in ones opinion, and more a piece of propaganda to move the audience to join the fight. The play shows the horrors of reality and a resolution that leaves the children and audience with hope. The bottom line is to show the audience that these children are not hopeless or lost causes and they need batch to have hope and believe their fate is not sealed with the constituent they were born into.