[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'194918\' date=\'Aug 23 2008, 01:44 AM\']
It won't make the *state* look bad. Her, maybe. Maybe even the school system, though people's opinion of that is low enough I can't see it doing any harm.[/quote]
You have a charmingly naive view of the way the world works. Most of the rest of the country probably doesn't think much about Georgia's school system. But if she does poorly (and if I'm not mistaken, even if she wins $500,000 she still has to say "the line"), then we all point and laugh. And editorialists in your home state have a field day.
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'194918\' date=\'Aug 23 2008, 01:44 AM\']People complain about anything. Either this is supposed to mean "she should have no time off *at all* until the schools are perfect", or else "her not appearing on the show would have magically fixed the budget and sent someone back in time to stop them from changing what the test was going to cover after it was too late to teach the new material."[/quote]
And again, man, you don't seem to know much about politics either. Of COURSE this comment is politically motivated by her critic (regardless of whether he actually wants her job or just wants to show what a screw-up she is). And all she had to do to avoid this embarrassment is not agree to appear on a stupid game show. If I was a state superintendent, just about the last thing I'd do is appear on a game show which makes fun of adults who can't handle fifth-grade material.
If she had a school system she could point to with pride, that's an entirely different matter. My understanding, in part from your own comments, is that this is not the case. I can't imagine how this comes out as a positive for her professionally.
