Sunday, October 14, 2012  Voting for Homeschool  With the girls
and Matt at Chess Club, I've sat myself down to do some voter
research for upcoming state and local elections.  Unfortunately,
my research got stopped cold when I made to just quickly double-
check that I knew who I was voting for in the state school
superintendent race: the Republican dude who's run the public
schools into the ground for the past four years, stymied its
kiddos with huge testing burdens, and tried to punish teachers
who are less successful at force-feeding context-less
standardized testing information into their students' brains for
years on end without a break, or the Democratic chick who has
the support of the teachers' union, and wants to basically spend
her term undoing all of the current superintendent's
requirements concerning high stakes testing and teacher
evaluations?  Simple, right? Just let me check on one tiny
detail, first...  Crap. Looks like she hates homeschooling.
It's common knowledge here that Indiana's public