It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
When you think about the children, one of the things that I'm quite concerned about - and I've heard it expressed by others - is trying to find how we can build better accountability, work to provide a level of education that prepares our children for the future.
Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.