Who Lost the Education Debate?

The debate has not yet ended on who won the Gubernatorial "Debate" at Eldorado High School Thursday.

There is no debate on who was the loser; it was the people.

The debate was arguably the most important debate that the candidates will ever have. And it was held in virtual secret from the vast majority of voters.

According to the wishes of the Candidates and their cronies in the leadership of the APS, the people were deliberately denied the opportunity to watch the debate in person; it was held in one of the smallest venues available, and tickets were reserved for a select few at their choosing.

According to the wishes of a corrupt few in the leadership of the APS, the press was denied equal treatment under the law; the coverage of the debate was skewed, deliberately.

According to the wishes of the local media moguls; the people were denied, for the most, the opportunity to watch the debate on TV.

Instead of being able to watch the debate in person or on TV, voters will have only the spin of the media and of the candidates to serve as the basis for their decision making.

The losers include everyone who had a legitimate question for the candidates. questions which did not get asked. Instead, the leadership of the APS, took it upon themselves to decide which questions would and would not be asked.

In accordance with his interest in denying teachers a seat at the table where decisions are made, APS Supt Winston Brooks, who had sole discretion in determining which questions would be asked, chose to not ask either candidate if they had any intention of really empowering teachers by offering them a seat at the table where the decisions will be made that affect their future and the future of public education in New Mexico.

It is arguably the most important question of them all.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of years of teaching experience in New Mexico schools, and no one wants to ask them what they think needs to change. For no other reason than to hide the truth about what teachers would say,

... if anybody asked them, ever.