iImage Reflection Questions

1. Give a one sentence description of the idea.
" No Child Left Behind emphasizes the score but forgets the student."

2. Describe the experience of the idea
I wanted the viewers to feel the despair and abandonment that is happening to students in today's public schools systems after implementing No Child Left Behind. The students scores are higher than before, but at what cost. Teachers are pressured more and more to focus on the standardized test where a portion of the school funding is decided, but are told "not to teach to the test." More time is taken away from the beginning of the year which teachers should use to get to know their students, learn their strengths and weaknesses and begin to form positive relationships that will set the tone for the rest of the year, in order to prepare for the test which is given in October, only one month after returning from summer vacation. The girl in my iImage is a representation of the felling shared by both students and teachers as more time is spent training for the test than is spent on the individual student.

3. Describe the design of the i-Image
My thoughts behind the iImage after reading the article about design, was to create the girls face as the focus, appropriately in the middle. I then wanted to surround her with the terms of NCLB. To give it a sense that she was visibly upset by the invasion, I placed a few words very close to her but not to disrupt her face and the anguish it presented. I hoped that the eye would work its way left to right around the head reading the terms that were surrounding her and getting a sense of why she was so miserable. Finally the eye is to loop back to her face where it follows the path of the tears down directly to the altered logo "No Child LEFT."