Early Voting Underway, Part II

Yesterday I voted for Karen Deakin for GCISD Board of Trustees.

Both candidates seem well qualified, with business backgrounds, many various volunteer affiliations and experience with GCISD.

I was not pleased with either of their answers on the recent SBOE rewriting of history, but for me this is going to come down to the final answer given by Deanne Ayers on the question of the GCISD decision to not televise President Obama’s stay in school speech to our nation’s children at the beginning of the school year.

Ayers said the decision was correct and that no child should be forced to attend “a watch party for the President”. That to me speaks volumes about her political ideology. 

Our public school children already suffer enough from ideology over education from Gov. Rick Perry, to the Republican-led House and Senate and now the ridiculous changes of the SBOE. If you think that a stay in school, turn off the TV, parents take responsibility for your children message from a man who worked his way up and fought so many odds is partisan indoctrination, I don’t want you in charge of our children’s education.

Deakin answered that she felt the GCISD decision was for the most part correct, which it wasn’t, but that it should have been shown to the high school students and then possibly used as a teaching tool in other classes.

I am not happy with that answer, but sometimes when you cast your ballot you are not just voting for someone, you are voting against the other.