sraisor is correct about KERA, it is a joke. Hey we can partially thank our Governor. He helped bring us this disaster in the first place. I believe he has even said he still supports it. Why I am not sure, maybe it is because there aren't any better ideas from our state government.

Last week my daughter came home from FCHS crying and shaking due to the treatment she has been receiving from a school administrator. Once again gotta love the liberal people at FCHS. When I went to talk to the principal I even had to stand there and listen to this same person lie about my daughters behavior. Luckily the new superintendent got involved to help with the situation.

It's blog,dude? So what does that mean? It's ok to use bad grammar? Just like the public schools teach now. There is no spelling class any more. The teachers tell the students to focus on the answer, not the spelling. So they all come out not being able to put together a resume or anything else w/o being full of mistakes. It's just laziness. Schools should have stuck to the "3 R's" and scrap this KERA bullcrap.

its blog dude!

No offense to the writer, but did YOU go to Franklin County public schools? I ask because your comments are fraught with grammatical errors. I have noticed that in 75% of comments posted here, in the "What's Your Beef" column, even in classified ads, the writers struggle with the simplest of grammar rules. Additionally, if the young people who are working in local stores are a sampling of the public school system...be afraid. I finally took my child out because the schools here are so terrible.

I read it as the literal meaning of the word liberal and not the political party affiliation. Liberal as in generous.

I think it was Winston Churchill who said that if you are 20 and not a liberal you don't have a heart and if you are 40 and not conservative you don't have a brain. I am not sure why happeehippee is so proud to be a liberal or to have learned about it at FCHS, she must be young. What does being a liberal or conservative have to do with our kids being able to read, write and go on to college? Why should our schools teach kids how to be liberal or conservative anyway? Shouldn't they just concentrate on the three R's? One last comment, our schools are getting out of hand as far as the students behavior is concerned, I think the 'liberal' way of discipline is a failure. Too many of our teachers are afraid to hurt someones feelings and try to be friends with the students. Our kids don't need friends, they need role models and education. FCHS recently had an incident where a student got beat up pretty good at school, kids stood by and used their phones to record it and sent it to their friends and it is my understandig that someone posted it out on the internet (it has been removed as far as I know). Yes, FCHS. Go liberals!

Are they really teaching that in schools these days? I thought schools were supposed to encourage people to think for themselves.

And I understand like T-S said that it isn't just as simple as saying someone is liberal or not that we are all different and so forth.

I just believe in my philosophy of being a liberal very strongly and I'm not afraid to say it on here because I think it is important.

Sorry, you all are right. I should have never brought politics in to it. The post should have just been about the schools being positive place like I said. Sorry if I ofended anyone.

I just think about liberals as good teachers because that is how I originally found out about liberals and it was in the FC public schools that I was taught about why it was better to be a liberal than anything else.

Thanks for commenting Tamed-Shrew... I thought it did relate to the original topic, because HappeeHippie suggested one of the reasons Franklin County schools were so great was because of the liberal teachers and principals. If the day ever comes when we go to research college options for our children and instead of the obvious academic criteria that make a college a good choice or a bad one, we focus on if the professors are liberal or conservative. For example "Anytown University is ranked in the top ten academic institutions because 82% of the faculty are liberals". Yikes!