No Child Left Behind????

As the auto industry rides into D.C. seeking yet another tax payer line of credit, the temperament of the American public for corporate bailout grows increasingly thin.  An article in today's NY Times describing the deplorable health conditions and relative lack of concern from our government to provide meaningful support to Hurricane Katrina victims 3 years after the fact only exacerbates public discontent.  What about these forgotten youth who are trying to find even the slightest bit of normalcy in their lives?  Has our collective short-term memory allowed us to forget that if we are going to bail anyone out shouldn't we be focusing on the innocent victims of this recent natural disaster?  

If we don't respond to the critical health care needs and provide a basic safety-net for victims of Katrina, like the article suggests, "what you're looking at is our future juvenile justice--our prison population.  According to a study by Columbia University, 42 percent of the children who lived in trailers laced with dangerous levels of formaldehyde had allergic rhinitis or an upper respiratory infection.  Additionally, more than half of children ages 6-11 had a learning problem, yet had to wait as long as 2 years to be tested for learning disabilities.  

 No Child Left Behind!!??