Just in time for Halloween, an update from the spook file. The blogger Bellaciao (motto: "To rebel is right, to disobey is a duty, to act is necessary!") has apparently unraveled the mystical meaning behind the No Child Left Behind act: it's a reference to the Apocalypse. Specifically, it's code for the bestselling "Left Behind" series, an evangelical Christian science fiction series that tells the story of the Rapture and the End Days, as the forces of Satan and God duke it out on Earth. The dotted lines are a bit hard to follow here, but we think Bellaciao is suggesting that NCLB is meant to be a wink-wink reference to the series, and possibly a harbinger of an evangelical takeover of public schools. Which, if true, might make Democrats a little happier that it's "underfunded."
"No Child 'Left Behind': Code words for a children's cookbook," by Jane Stillwater, Bellaciao.org, October 25, 2004, http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3938
