Recent Comments
Re: “Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst Has a Strange Definition of 'Reformer'”
We have lots of charter schools that Rhee promotes in Davidson County. So they are great for my kids but not good enough for hers?
Re: “It Depends on What the Meaning of the Words 'Public School Parent' Is”
Where you send your kids to school is a personal decision and nobody's business unless you make your living telling parents how terrible their public schools are and how all the public school teachers are so painfully inept. Then parents become curious about where you choose to educate your kids.
Michelle Rhee and ex-husband have profited by telling parents that charter schools are the answer to all education questions. Naturally we expect that both of their daughters would be in the wonderful charter schools that their parents tout daily as academically killing the metro public schools. It makes you both look like hypocrites when you are zoned for the best public schools in Nashville and your children will both be enrolled in a private all girl school with a tuition of $22,000 per year. (The paperwork for private school was already due when Michelle stated she was a public school parent and with one daughter already at Harpeth Hall, it was a done deal.)
Now why is it that Michelle Rhee and her ex-husband Kevin Huffman want us to let our children be guinea pigs for their latest educational reform whim but we can't ask where their children attend school? We may talk slow in the South but our quick wits are on to you.
Re: “Come for the Photo ID, Stay for the Scavenger Hunt”
They tried to turn away a voter I accompanied trying to get an ID to vote because the crease in the folded birth certificate made it hard to read the first name. Many of the Department of Safety workers feel the same as bobsguns and are offended at having to give a Tennessean a free ID to vote. If they get past the documentation, then they try to talk them out of the free ID by telling them all the things you supposedly can't do with an ID only.
Re: “Albert Tieche on the Hot Seat at Election Commission”
Mr. Tieche is unwilling to listen to Republican state election officials or Republican appointed commissioners once he plots his course. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Robert J. Hanlon