By keith

September 24, 2006 9:21 AM | Link to this

I watched the debate on the newsnet5 website where you can play it back in the window. Ken Blackwell’s smirk that he gives when he’s not performing his lines still smacks of Bush’s smirk to me. I hear Strickland open to what’s going to help the public schools do better. I hear Blackwell saying one thing and doing another like the Ohio Lottery money takeaways. If he and his Republican friends had a solution, they would have implemented it as long as they’ve been in Columbus. His solution is charter schools to diminish the size of the public schools. Our tax money will be further siphoned off to pet projects—the charter schools. And they ain’t working folks. The politicians can come up with pet examples, but they’re for profit and incompetent. They don’t follow the rules they have currently. More isn’t going to be better. I had a teacher from one whom I had had in class come back for observation of my classroom. Uncertified. Still working on certification. But teaching in an area charter. I wouldn’t have wanted her teaching my children. She said many others there had even less teaching qualifications. As I watched this debate I recalled Oldprof’s comment that Blackwell had changed his stripes when in Cincinnati from Charter to Democrat to Republican for Columbus. His plan for education will change stripes also if he were elected governor. Another 4 years of same-old, same-old we’ve had on school funding. Just more attempts to destroy public schools for charter, private, and parochial to benefit.

By keith

September 22, 2006 8:47 PM | Link to this

The video of the debate is on the tv station’s webpage http://www.newsnet5.com/video/9894472/index.html