Creative Insanity-The journey of a future educator

As the Presidential election draws near and the craziness increases expodentially, I still felt in the dark about where each candidate stands on education. I know how they feel about oil, well everyone is pretty vocal about that issue. I looked at both candidates official websites to see what they believe is right with education and what needs to improve.

John McCain  (listed 5th out of 12 issues)

Barack Obama (listed 5th out of 22 issues, but his were in alphabetical order)

Personally, I liked Barack’s plan for education better. I think he has real foresight on what is needed. He saw the flaws in No Child Left Behind, but instead of dismissing completely, he wants to expand and improve on the legislation already in place. I don’t like the idea of more charter schools though.

The only thing that really bothered me about McCain’s plan was to allow parents to “hand-pick” their childs school. If their is a specific school you want your child in, you should be in that district. Second of all, if every parent go to do this, then there would be several very large crowded schools and some empty buildings where I am from. Instead of focusing on going to a better school, make the school you go to better.