Reply #22: thank you.

[mzteris]

These lies get started and then repeated and perpetuated - and it HURTS the push to improve education in the US. A system that is severely hurting and in danger.

How can ANYONE watch Obama and Michele in a classroom full of children and believe for one single second that he doesn't care deeply about children and their education? He clearly does want "what is best" for the children. Sometimes that means what is "not best" for the adults.

That said, I support teachers and really really believe in higher pay and smaller classrooms and more supports and greater autonomy. I am not anti-teacher. I am not anti-public school. I am not anti-traditional-public school. I believe in educational choices (but not vouchers). I do not support the handful of "for-profit" management companies who are running both traditional and (10% of the) charter public schools in the US.

Fraud and corruption exist in school systems across the country - it should be rooted out and prosecuted - in both traditional and charter public schools.