Comments on: Candidates Flip-Flop on Education

By: Spaniard in USA

Spaniard in USA — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:42:10 +0000

“I’ve been in the construction business most of my life and if something goes wrong often the foreman gets fired not the worker because the foreman was not doing his job. Same thing with education, if the children are failing fire the teacher. Make sense in my book.”

Jude, I have been both a teacher and construction worker and the difference is that a good teacher can not get ride of the student who doesn’t want to be in school, and any average foreman can FIRE any worker for almost any thing.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:20:22 +0000

We have seen what Barack Obama will do to improve education of schoolchildren: he will give money to radical organizations to promote “political organization” of adults. Annenberg. Annenberg. Annenberg.

By: Jim Baker

Jim Baker — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:06:50 +0000

One thing is that, if we continue to allow the kind of teaching prevalent in our public schools, we will completely destroy the idea of citizen controlled government.

By: Marc Malone

Marc Malone — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:21:42 +0000

The reason for the confusion on this issue, is the federal government has no business in the field of education, other than maybe school loans. Just another layer of bureaucracy to waste more dollars.

What I’d like to see is the State governments collect the revenues for the schools, and give every cent on a per-head basis to the individual school districts. No layers of bureaucracy. No experts trying to find new, better ways to teach the three R’s. No new indoctrination programs. Just basic education. Average cost pre student this year? $10k. X 25 students per class. A quarter mil per class per year. Ridiculous. Amateurs.

By: I look at schools from both sides now … at Joanne Jacobs

I look at schools from both sides now … at Joanne Jacobs — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:33:42 +0000

[...] Obama is on both sides of key education issues, writes Greg Forster on Pajamas Media. Suppose I told you Candidate A has [...]

By: M.

M. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:57:45 +0000

My observation has been that when the powers that be can’t get it together relative to the public schools, they tend to try to divert attention by piling on more regulations over home educators.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:36:48 +0000

We’ve already seen what Barack Obama will do for our education system: he’ll spend the money on radicals, who will focus on getting votes from adults for Democrats.

By: Jude

Jude — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:28:55 +0000

I’ve been in the construction business most of my life and if something goes wrong often the foreman gets fired not the worker because the foreman was not doing his job. Same thing with education, if the children are failing fire the teacher. Make sense in my book.