I accept your characterization of yourself as lazy since mental illness is the diagnosis of internet psychiatrists everywhere and one of their common characteristics is laziness.

As for Obama’s weak approval of charter schools, what did you expect?

While the general lack of satisfaction with the public education system has certainly hurt the political clout of the NEA, it’s still a very big, very important part of the support any Democratic presidential contender would pursue. Since charters are evolving into the single, most potent threat faced by the status quo in education Obama’s wishy-washy support for charters is understandable if not particularly courageous. So Obama makes enough in the way of supportive comments about charters to satisfy one of his primary support groups, blacks, but doesn’t annunciate sufficient support for charters to irritate the NEA.

All of which proves pretty conclusively that Obama’s idea of change is doing things the same way they’ve always been done.

What I mean is that Obama’s education position is virtually meaningless.

McCain advocates shaking up the education establishment.

McCain is for choice. Obama is for the teachers’ unions. And since the unions control education, Obama is the candidate for the status quo.

Obama’s weak approval of charter schools is embarrassing.

If it weren’t for the fact that McCain is a right-wing lunatic who wants to start wars and destroy the environment, I’d vote for him.

If you go to the link, the only thing that Obama says about charter schools is that he will close low-performing charter schools. My guess is that the second or third year into the Obama ADmnistraiton, every charter school will be listed as low performing.

Obama wants better math and science educaiton but will not tolerate speciality pay for math or science teachers.

Obama also wants tolower drop out rates which means he wants to lower standards not tolerate low achievement.

If you parse what is written on Obama’s onw web site, the solution is waht is always proposed by the Democratic Party, throw more money at the problem.

McCain does and I’m 100% in agreement with what McCain says.

Fox News watching Republicans are so off base I think they might be mentally ill. But they make perfect sense when talking about education. And Democrats, on the subject, sound brain-dead when they open their mouths.