John McCain wants to give control of the money to the state level. He wants to allow the principals to have more control over the spending of the money. He also feels that early enrollment such as Day Care with Pre-School or Pre-K is what is going to help the children of America succeed. McCain wants to help make these programs more easily available to the average person or the person with the low income who can’t afford it by federally funding it or a percentage of it.
Senator Barack Obama feels that No Child Left Behind “left the funding behind”. Has a plan called the Zero to Five plan for children from the ages of zero to five. This plan calls for affordable high quality childcare and dedicated caring compassionate care givers. Obama feels that teachers should not be forced to spend the year preparing students for the typical “standardized tests” – (Lest face it just about EVERYONE can fill in a BUBBLE!) that lump the students of this county into various categories.
Obama and Biden intend to focus more on math and science as a whole to raise the national scores. They plan to recruit teachers of the math and science fields who were in the top of their classes. After they raise the scores they plan to attack the drop out rate. They are going to make things more readily available to the students so the students feel that there is another option.
When it comes to keeping the teachers Obama’s plan is about the same as McCain’s he has come up with a way to reward the teachers. He wants to hire a more qualified individual to insure that the teachers stay in the profession and don’t teacher for a year or two and decide that they don’t like it. Obama also has come up with a tax plan to make higher education more easily access able to the average person, or at least to help with some of the student loans that one acquires. They plan to make students more prepared for college by offering more AP and college credit classes at the high school level. Doing this will also help cut back on some of the cost because when the classes are offered in the high schools they are usually about one half the cost of a normal college class. So this benefits the student, the parent, and the higher learning institute in which the contract is thro because every one wins. The student gets the classes they need to succeed, the parent doesn’t have to pay as much and the college is getting money before the student is even out of high school.
I personally am not really happy with either of these candidates. Nor do I feel it is fair that I am required to share who I am supporting in the 2008 presidential election, because personally I think that is my business and mine only, that is why I usually choose not to discuss politics because all it does it give people an excuse to argue most of the time. If and when I must become involved though I like to be sure that I am well educated on the subjects at hand. I like to make sure that I know all the facts possible before I open my big mouth. I feel that is the problem with a fair percentage of today’s population. We continue to push people to get out there and vote vote voet voet ….. But do they even know what they are supporting? What they are really voting for? What the candidate they are voting for is supporting or pushing through?
So it is with this little note that I leave you, consider this the next time you hear one of those ads telling someone to get up off their rear and get out there and do their duty and vote… Do you really want that person making and “uneducated guess” as to what they are supporting. Maybe instead of parading all the fancy ads around bashing each other and trying to degrade each other the presidential candidates should spend a little more time trying to educate the American people on just what it is that they stand for. The TRUE meaning .
Works Cited
1) New York Times article – Internet
2) New York Times article – Internet
3) TV- The debates- both Vice presidential and Presidential
4) Internet- – Official Website
5) Internet- – Official Website
