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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why is the No Child Left Behind Act considered a failure.

Throughout my entire life I have heard people put down the No Child Left Behind Act but from what I could tell by a simple google search the act was intended to provide educational opportunities to many kids who would not have previously had them as well as raising national education standards. Was there something in it that was fundamentally flawed or did it simply just fall short of this goal?
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Schools could only get more money through testing, which resulted in multiple grading scandals.  It also forced kids through the system who were maybe not ready to advance as quickly as they did.  This would set back students who were testing at grade levels.  It essentially dumbed down everything, forcing all students to learn at the lowest-performing levels.  Besides the funding issue, it seems like an ideal thing, to not let kids down no matter what, but it ends up holding others back.