Reply #32: It's been clear to me since the first time I heard Obama discuss merit pay

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that it would be based on test scores.

But then, I'm both a teacher and someone who isn't moved by fine sounding words, but by the potential that lies beneath them.

Obama told us, quite frankly, that he thinks Republicans are better on education than Democrats, and that he "sometimes gets in trouble with teachers."

He's right about at least one thing. I've never much liked ANY of his positions, since I consider the center-right to be as much an enemy as any Republican.

His appointment of Duncan, and his determination to move the privatization and corporatization of education forward, is unfortunate, to say the least. I can't speak for the rest of my colleagues. For myself, though, I will say that Obama has burned his bridges.

Not that I think he cares about that.