Unit 10 takes in a lot of territory, so in 3 days I nearly logged on 1,000 miles! Upon leaving Britt, we headed to Spencer. In Spencer UD King had arranged for two interviews. The first took me to the Spencer Daily where I sat down with reporter Kris Todd.
Once the newspaper interview was complete, we were off to KICD radio. Here I felt I was being poked in the eye for t
he entire 45 minutes. Gee, why don’t public schools support vouchers, tuition tax credits, and performance based pay? Then the radio person goes on to tell me how they home-schooled their own children. Gee, why do public schools feel that there’s not a problem that throwing money at can’t fix it—and in the same breath the reporter shared how since they are a little station surrounded by really huge stations, they bought dopler radar, goo-gobs of computers and other technologies---in which I quickly reminded him that it sounded like they fixed their problem by throwing a lot of money at it. It was painful, but a quick reminder that not everyone supports public schools and as public school advocates, we have much work yet to do!
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