How Michelle Rhee Is Taking Over the Democratic Party

[Frustratedlady]

6. The teachers in my family are very upset over this.

They are all public school teachers and are proud of what they do for the children. My daughter used to stay at school and work until nearly 6:00, volunteer for all kinds of activities and donate supplies so her pupils had all they needed to learn.

This year, she is leaving school when her day is up at 3:45, no longer volunteering for the extra activities and won't be adding those extras anymore.

It makes me sad to see her this way, as her spirit is broken.

I think one of the biggest improvements Obama could have made to education was to end NCLB and to find a new Secretary of Education. I am very disappointed in this one area of this administration.

I can see that Obama wants to improve schools, but all schools are not the same. Not everyone can send their children (or even have children) to top-performing schools like his girls are privileged to attend. If he is wanting all children to have the same advantage as them, it just "ain't" gonna happen and they are disrupting well-performing schools to make it happen.