Reply #20: No, it isn't authentic, and that is why the answers...

[YvonneCa]

...and solutions dumped on public schools are so often wrong. IMO. The ONLY difference I see now...with the Obama Administration... is that I think they DO really care. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part, but I think they want to get it right, for the right reasons...to better educate the next generation. And I don't think they like privatization, in general, like the last administration did.

I also think most politicians don't know the answers to fix things...they have to rely on the experts, which is GOOD, so long as they listen to ALL the experts. That includes the people in the trenches...teachers.

Bush mismanaged foreign policy because he only listened to his own 'experts'. They didn't have all the facts, as so he went down the wrong road. (Maybe the road they wanted to go down anyway.) It has been a disaster, to put it mildly.

Taking a similar path on education will also have disastrous results.IMO. And it's all about RESULTS, right? :7