Friday, January 15, 2010

Morning Roundup: Entire Audience Falls into Coma at Shocking First Gubernatorial Forum

Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:41 AM

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The seven candidates for governor tout their education goals at a forum at Belmont and, by all accounts, it's a stick-to-the-script affair. From the Chattanooga Times Free Press, this handy rundown of the candidates' points of emphasis: Bill Gibbons wants to give HOPE scholarships to the "best and brightest" who commit to be teachers. (Wouldn't they already get scholarships?) Bill Haslam wants to be the "chief salesman for Tennessee" for job growth, but says we must improve education to do it. Jim Kyle wants to expand pre-K to all children. Kim McMillan says our higher education system "puts barriers and stop signs up and prevents you from getting your degree." Mike McWherter wants to fully fund the BEP because "it has proven results." Ron Ramsey says the state needs competition in education with charter schools and home schooling. "I'm a huge advocate of home schooling," he gushes. (He wouldn't pander to social conservatives, would he?) Zach Wamp emphasizes early childhood reading and says students should read proficiently by third grade. McWherter wins the prize for most quotable comment: "I'm a businessman, I'm not a politician. And there are a lot of people on this stage here tonight who had a chance to fix education in this state and simply haven't gotten the job done." Wamp manages to produce a laugh from the drowsy audience with his pithy listing of Tennessee's strengths: "We got rid of Lane Kiffin, we've got it all!" Reports from Erik Schelzig ... Matt Wilson ... Chas Sisk ... and Jackson Baker. The key plank in Gov. Phil Bredesen's education reform agenda cleared both House and Senate committees by near-unanimous votes. It's headed to the Senate floor today and maybe the House floor too. The main difference: The House version would make educators a majority of the committee deciding how to evaluate teachers. Dresden Democrat Mark Maddox:
"I wanted to make sure we had people who had been in front of classrooms and had been evaluated by the present instrument, and people who had been in the back of the classrooms watching and using that evaluation instrument, on that committee, because this to me is the most important factor of what we've just done."
Bredesen says UT presidency "not my cup of tea." ... The governor's academy is closing. ... Court of Appeals bars autopsy on executed inmate. ... House Speaker Kent Williams is for letting the courts decide the guns-in-bars issue.

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Thank you for including my witty reply about Lane Kiffin! But then they cut my mike off and the audience was not able to hear my next comment. I will personally stop Lane Kiffin at the border next time he tries to enter our state. If his Southern Cal football team gets an invitation to the Music City Bowl, he will get detained and will miss the game. It is the least that I can do for the good, salt of the earth people of this fine state. I'm also sending Stacy Campfield undercover to SC games next season!
Thank you and please, VOTE FOR ME!!!!!

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Posted by Zach Wamp's Automatic Replier on January 15, 2010 at 9:13 AM

How about this:
'Volunteers from Woodmont Christian Church who were in Haiti were evacuated by plane and have safely arrived in Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper's office reports."
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100114/NEWS01/100114103
Should maybe the volunteers have stayed and helped out? Or did they decide the Haitians were now a bit too distracted to hearing God's loving message and just wanted to get the hell out?
Discuss.

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Posted by Marvin on January 15, 2010 at 10:25 AM

Hola,
Greetings from Italy! Thought I would share somethings I have learned as well as learn from others.
Wish Everyone out here a belated Merry Christmas
Triola

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Posted by AsbesMesoReality on January 16, 2010 at 3:23 AM

I will reply to each of the quotes presented here.
Gibbons - You will have to pay serious salaries to get the best and brightest to teach. That being said, you don't have to be a genius to teach children.
Haslam - Realism is an important aspect of improving education. If a kid isn't college material, he should enter vocational training after eighth grade. Not everyone has to be on the college track to be a success.
Kyle - Great, another entitlement. The only way to totally destroy minds is to start young!
McMillan - Lack of intelligence is the biggest barrier to obtaining a college degree, which is why the system is the way it is. Anyone who reaches adulthood needing remedial courses should forget about it.
Mike McWherter - If the state board needs to be involved, what exactly is wrong at the local level?
Ron Ramsey - Yes! There are serious alternatives for anyone who does not wish their child to become a mindless drone. Remember, public school teaches to the top of the bell curve, and there is no advantage in having your children associate with the lowest elements of society.
Zach Wamp - You have hit the nail on the head! Parental attitude is the most important aspect in early child development, and success starts at home.

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Posted by Joe Carmen on January 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM

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