The debates have not seen a\u00a0moderator bring up either ‘education’ or ‘school’ in the transcripts from the first two debates. Perhaps Sunday’s first question from Anderson Cooper acknowledges that schools exist, but avoides\u00a0education related issues, to talk instead about the campaign’s tone:<\/p>\n
Knowing that educators assign viewing the presidential debates as students’ homework, do you feel you’re modeling appropriate and positive behavior for today’s youth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This question\u00a0really had nothing to do with education or schools, it really had to do with the negative nature of this campaign. With all of the theatrics around this campaign season, schools are\u00a0getting pushed out of the picture. The future of America’s schools can’t seem to compete the\u00a0crossfire around\u00a0that\u00a0day’s\u00a0theatrics and rumors. The responses in these debates quickly turn to the kind of personal attacks typically reserved for\u00a0the Real Housewives,\u00a0and the real issues are being left to the wayside.<\/p>\n
In the last debate I hope we can get one question to the candidates about an education issue. Maybe it could be how they perceive the success of the Common Core State Standards, maybe it could be about the need for federally funded Universal Pre-K, or whether education spending is a priority in their budgets. There’s loads of questions in the higher-ed world as well. The rising cost of college is important, as is the need to produce more teachers and also the role of the federal government\u00a0in supporting education research. Seeing the candidates talk about these issues would do well to illustrate how our children will benefit from their presidency.<\/p>\n
The headlines around this race have been full of insults\u00a0and character assault. While the media is getting pulled into these kind of stories, the issues that matter to a lot of people are getting left out of the discussion. The\u00a0hunt for the next “October Surprise” means issues like education get drowned out and means undecided voters then must base their decision\u00a0whose campaign most successfully torpedoed the other. Let’s hope the third debate will be a chance to talk about issues that are real instead another episode of what’s becoming a\u00a0sad reality show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In\u00a0Sunday night’s debate the word ‘school’ was said a total of three times, all by Hillary Clinton. Two of those refered to her past, as she\u00a0described how she helped out in ‘schools’ when she finished law ‘school’. The word ‘education’ was used only\u00a05 times. Donald Trump used it twice, both to say that the inner-city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The @debates have been disappointing so far. \r\n\r\nWho's the loser? Schools.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}