Headline Ranting

Come on, this is just wrong: “A local mother who home-schools her children is the new chairwoman-elect of the board that oversees Stupid State’s public schools.”

Y’all: she won’t even put her own children into the public school system, and now she will be a leader—the leader of the State Board of Education!! I can NOT be alone here: this is not OK.

Now, I know someone is going to argue that she keeps her kids out of public schools because they’re so bad, and she wants to make a change, blah, blah, blah. But, come on, she not only knows nothing about public education and how it works, but she also has no vested interest in public education. After all, she home-schools her own children!

On top of that, she founded a group called Stupid State Parents in Education, which supports abstinence education, taxpayer dollars spent on private schools, and the teaching of intelligent design. I would also like to point out that the woman has a degree, not in education, but in engineering. I have always said that those who serve on the board of ed. should be people with experience in education—public education. This only makes sense. People with no educational expertise should not be making decisions about education. Period.