In a bland McCain commercial touting his willingness to listen to everyone’s ideas and thereby achieve utopia, the announcer says “education transformed” over the image of a house. There’s a quick flash of a child reading to an adult in a living room. It sure looks homeschooling.
Well, maybe not. The house is illustrating “mortgage debt restructured,” and the child could be reading in a classroom. That house led me astray.
I’m all for him acknowledging HSing, but it looks like it could just be a girl in a classroom and the teacher sitting in the front. It’s a bit fuzzy. But who knows? I hope you’re right JJ.
Oh, dear, if you are right, that is scary, in more ways than one!
While McCain is a “national senator,” look at his home state which probably influences his opinions and approaches.
Arizona is probably one of the most libertarian inclined states. When charter schools started Arizona opened them up to anyone so while some states started with a handful AZ started with over 400.
Home schooling is also a long standing tradition and public schools have “home school schools” which provide support and supplemental instruction for home school families.
And one of his down home advisors, Lisa Keegan, has long advocated giving money to students, not schools, and their enrollment choices determines ho money will be allocated to schools.
Maybe the creators wanted it to be ambiguous?
dkzody - I’m curious - what is scary about it?
I don’t want a President who pushes homeschooling.
dkzody - thanks for responding. I doubt we will ever have a President who pushes homeschooling. I do hope we always have one who is not against it, though!