tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post1682637960696981041..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: Bully Pulpit But No Legislation For Education?Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-38791496687663841892009-03-11T17:12:00.000-07:002009-03-11T17:12:00.000-07:00Despite all the hot air expended on education this...Despite all the hot air expended on education this election cycle I still don't think it's seen as a serious issue nationally. Obama doesn't look to be doing anything important legislatively beyond throwing money at public education. <BR/><BR/>He's trying not to anger the NEA and trying not to anger the growing constituency in favor of substantive policy change. So no repeal of NCLB but no big push for charters or vouchers.<BR/><BR/>Money being oil on politically-troubled waters, Obama's laying it on thick and fast in the hopes, I believe, of buying himself some reprieve from demands for policy changes that'll get him into very hot water whichever way he goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-4919017687999726242009-03-10T20:27:00.000-07:002009-03-10T20:27:00.000-07:00I am fearful that the oversight of the Obama Admin...I am fearful that the oversight of the Obama Administration will implement such ideas as "new history" and "new literature" in which deference is paid to minority writers no matter how obscure, in order to fill some social niche. So kids won't read Shakespeare or learn about Manifest Destiny, but instead will learn about little known writers and obverse history just for the sake of being different. A culture that doesn't share some common beliefs, knowledge, traits is a culture that cannot adhere. It is a culture bent on self-destruction. And in the end, I think that is what Team Obama really wants.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-47559521246178512082009-03-10T14:55:00.000-07:002009-03-10T14:55:00.000-07:00Good!Still not in favor of the idea of universal p...Good!<BR/><BR/>Still not in favor of the idea of universal preschool, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-41993084492013609672009-03-10T13:32:00.000-07:002009-03-10T13:32:00.000-07:00I hate to burst your bubble but, looking at Obama'...I hate to burst your bubble but, looking at Obama's record, if he says he's not going to legislate something, it probably means he's going to end up legislating the hell out of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com