“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
~ Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has finally been repealed, but the end of this law came with too little reflection. The current administration touted their success in removing what had become an uncomfortable and unpopular reminder of America’s academic challeges, but the truth is that No Child Left Behind originally was slated to end in 2014. By 2014, all students in America were expected to be at a 100% passing rate on their state tests. That did not happen. That could never have happened. By the year 2014, the federal government had an awkward law that had failed its mission abysmally, and masses of employees and paperwork that remained and remain behind, ghosts in the Overlook Hotel of educational bureaucracy.