Elect
Ken McKenna
State Board of Education

Ken McKenna knows from personal experience that in America you can become anything you want.  In this great Country a person can improve his station in life through education.  You can become a lawyer, a doctor, a scientist, an artist, a writer, a President; no matter how lowly your beginnings.  That opportunity is very unique to the United States of America.

We have strayed from the dream lately.  We have made our schools about tests and moving children through the system.  We all know the tragic results of this approach.  Teachers are disheartened, students are memorizing test materials while not learning anything, schools that need the most help financially are being punished, and the dream of improving oneself is being lost.

It’s time to stop the destruction of our educational system.

Schools should be great places of excitement, energy, creativity, and adventure.

Some teachers have been able to maintain this environment that fosters creative learning that excites their students and provides what education is really suppose to do, encourage self learning.  They have done this while the politicians and the policy makers have done everything they could to discourage this kind of true educational experience.

Just think what we could accomplish if the policy makers believed in learning for the sake of learning, believed in allowing students to be creative and self guided, believed that a great teacher knows best how to teach, believed that tests are only a very small sample of a students educational growth, believed that great teachers deserve great pay, that students fundamentally want to learn, that if given the resources and presented the information in interesting ways they will grow intellectually.

Our children deserve the very best education in all the disciplines so that this country may be blessed with great future citizens and innovation.

Starting this election, Ken McKenna believes it is possible to get on that path.