Race to the Top- Obama's plan for education

     Education has become a major talking point for the candidates in the upcoming presidential election.  The only problem with all of the candidates is that their views are not quite clear.  For starters Rick Perry seems to have no view point on how education should be dealt with.  With President Obama talking more and more about education, how can you not have a view point on such a large topic?
     Another problem is that all but one of the candidates actually makes it easy to find their view points on education.  Herman Cain is the only  candidate with a tab on his issues page of  his website dedicated to education.  The rest of the candidates have nothing on their campaign websites about education or at least it is not evident where the tab is.  You have to go and search all over the web to find out their view points and there is always the possibility that the information you find could be false.

    President Obama doesn't have the best plan.  However, he has a plan on how to deal with education and how to make schools better.  President Obama wants to give schools grants so that they can further develop the way they teach.  His plan is to give schools grants that deserve the money and provide an incentive to other schools to have their students do better and make their schools better; we consider this view to be the best.  Even though it is not perfect, compared to the other views President Obamas' makes the most sense.
    Mitt Romney wants to keep the same system as former President George W. Bush.  He accepts no child left behind and Romney believes that the teachers are the reason that the education system is lacking.  How is that possible?  How is it the teachers fault that the education system cannot advance.  As students we know that there are bad teachers but it is not always the teachers fault.  If the students in the class act out and do not pay attention and disrespect the teacher it is very difficult to teach and then it becomes difficult to learn.  No child left behind contributes to this.  If you are advancing a student through high school and they need to be left back because they cannot learn and need the extra year because they are having a difficult time learning, then they should be left back.  If they advance and go into a more advanced class where they will not know what is going on, there is a better chance that they will act out making it harder for the kids that want to learn to learn.
     Herman Cain also has good ideas of how to strengthen the education system but he has no idea of how to support it.  He wants to have the federal government taken out of the situation and have the states do all the work.  We agree with this because he also says that something might not work in Oklahoma but will work in Hawaii.  This is very true. Different areas can have different learning situations.  The problem is by taking away federal support the states might not have the money to help the schools.  Without the money the schools can do nothing.  You cannot learn form old textbooks that supply wrong information.
    Then there is Ron Paul who just talks about homeschooling and how it should be the parents choice if they want there child home schooled or go to public or private school.  Other than that he does not talk about how he wants to improve the education system.
     President Obama is the only person whose plan is well constructed and has a possibility of working out.  Mitt Romney' plan is to keep the system the same, and we can see how well that is going.  Ron Paul does not even talk about how to improve the system just that home schooling is not a bad thing. Then there is Rick Perry who has nothing to say and apparently does not care about education.  President Obamas' plan has the best chance of working and even though it can be improved, it's not like the other candidates have better ideas.