Our State continues to increase spending on education year after year only to find many of our children are ill-equipped to function in the business world or compete in the global economy. The education system concerns itself with their self esteem, focuses less on their ability to reason, problem solve or to understand where we have come from, (our history). The results speak for themselves. Isn't time we tried to fix the problems with education and not just throw money at it? We have an overwhelming number of bureaucratic mandates and too much administration interfering with teachers ability to educate our kids. I will work to free teachers to teach facts and knowledge not social emotional learning, as if anyone really knew what that meant. We need creative ways to partner parents and teachers for the benefit of all; parents, teachers, kids and society.
Thank you for your time and interest.