Yet you did basically say that the reason teachers hated NCLB was because it would reveal them not doing their job properly, in the same paragraph as you basically saying that police hate recordings because it would reveal them not doing their job properly, or doctors hate malpractice suits because they reveal them not doing their job properly.
Which I guess isn't exactly the same as saying that only bad teachers hate NCLB, but the distinction is minor and irrelevant.
Well, what I actually said was not that "they reveal them not doing their job properly," but rather, "they have incentives."
All of those things are a nuisance and a threat for those groups of people. Even if you're a good policeman whose conduct is objectively awesome, when you see someone recording you, you have to wonder, "Will this guy catch me on camera screwing up, even though the last hundred times I've done everything right? Will the people who view this recording understand that I'm doing everything right if I do? Why doesn't this guy trust me?" And even if you're a good policeman, you know your buddy Bob, well... he doesn't have as exemplary a record as you do, but you think that on balance he's a good guy.
And, I don't know if this is true of the police, but for the teachers at least, they have the unions, their representatives and advocates, spending a LOT of time saying, "Testing is of the devil." They hear it day in and day out, from other teachers, from the unions, from a lot of politicians.
Those things matter. They matter a lot. If they didn't matter, teachers wouldn't be human.
And the fact is, there are downsides to all of those safeguards. They aren't perfect. Some of them may need to be reformed. Some may need to be reformed a lot.
But that's all beside the point, which is that teachers have a huge incentive to hate NCLB outside of its merits or faults as a program.
Which I guess isn't exactly the same as saying that only bad teachers hate NCLB, but the distinction is minor and irrelevant.