Why McCain will Win

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Jim

Fuckin' hate No Child Left Behind.

It will be interesting to see what happens after NCLB's mandate runs out, and inevitably fails. Its my opinion that NCLB was designed to fail to give the excuse to privatize national education. What do you think?

[Renwood]

It makes the main goal less about teaching and more about making the numbers look good. I think the worst thing is how it discourages any attention to programs that aren't directly tied to pushing up test scores. Gifted classes' budgets here are laughable, and Special Ed, given how fucked the weighting on grading is for the population, are being used more or less to hide the racial gaps in test scores.

Its discouraging to see how education is turned more and more into a business.

[KillerGremlin]

Obama has some easy material to work with. Bush's super low acceptance rating, the war, the causalities and the costs of the war. And then the fact that in two terms McCain will be 80......

We'll see how Obama holds up in debates, right now he has the hearts of America, and that's all that really matters. 3/4s of America don't give a damn about the politics.

I do like McCain, I've read up on him a bit and I've listened to him speak and I've warmed up to him a lot over the past month or two. So, I'm reserving my vote until I see the two duke it out in debate. I really think we need to flush out a lot of the Republicans, because even if McCain is a genuine guy there's still a lot of other not so great people.