I am without a doubt, unequivocably, unapologetically, and enthusiastically voting for Obama in Nov!

[Jakes Progress]

67. Not if you know anything about teaching.

Supporting unions with talk is cheap. Sending in your ed sec to trash unions and help districts cut union teachers to hire corporate short termers says more than words. If you don't know about this, then you are uninformed on this subject.

Which education bills do you support? You believe in more teaching to the test? You believe in george bush's education program? That's what we are getting here.

Look. You can be as gung ho as yo want. But on this issue, you display a woeful lack of information. It would seem that your support is based on the fact that this administration wanted it. Tell us why you think teachers and their unions are harming children. Tell us why you think it is a good idea to lay off experienced teachers and spend more money per teacher to hire corporate workers under contracts supported by the ed dept. Tell us why you think that we need more and more tests for kids and why we must stop teaching a whole curriculum to train kids for the tests.

If you support these things and know why you do, then you are right that we disagree, and that you are sound in your support of the administration's educational programs. I just wonder why someone on a Democratic site would be so in favor of enacting the programs first suggested by ronald reagan's education secretary.