One big favor from the two tickets…Stay out of education! Every four years we have to tolerate the pontificating by both clueless parties as to how they are going to really really, really, reform education. Of course the real, real, real reform means tens of billions more to get the same results.

As one who was in the classroom over 33 years — you are not part of the solution except in the respect that you have made so many unfunded and half-funded constantly changing silly mandates its a wonder anything gets done in our school districts. How about phasing in a 50 percent reduction in the Dept. of Education?

How about giving each state a grant based upon school age population and leaving us all alone except for helping with the special populations’ extreme situations. No more annual changes, no more annual exams from bureaucrats who could not teach a dog to chew a bone, no more “one size fits all,” no more “diversity bean counters,” no more PC police, no more slogans, no more new “now we got it right” programs, no more forms and no more tests to eat up teaching time.

If you must be busy, create some optional national test for seniors. Otherwise, let the states and locals educate their children.

Get out and go away. You are part of the problem and the tickets are going to mouth off again. Ignore their foolish rants. Better yet, fax them to stay out of education — no new miracle reforms, no new billions on “come-and-go” baloney.

If the beasty feds would let the states run education then we could at least have our voices heard. They sure are not listening in the royal congress. Don’t you think 50 states can find educational solutions among themselves without Uncle Sugar? I sure do.

Doug Schexnayder is a Vidalia resident