A DIFFERENT TAKE ON RESULTS OF THE RECENT ELECTIONS: We need to educate those we elect - AFTER they take office!

My Take #6
(Synopsis posted11/21/14; Full Analysis available at www.WebmasterSays.org, in the My Take section as My Take #6)

Synopsis: Webmaster reflects on the elections of November 4, 2014 and what he learned from his efforts related to them. He concludes that, while campaigning and voting for certain candidates is a civic responsibility, given the realities of how our electoral process is now working (or NOT working), anyone who is really concerned about solving many major problems should rethink how they budget the time they devote to political campaigns, etc. Webmaster has concluded that - in many cases - it is almost irrelevant WHO gets elected because that person is unlikely to do the job (for which they were elected) well. One possible way to improve this ‘reality’ is to devote less time to campaigns and more time to educating the elected official AFTER s/he is in office. Given that the critical element here is the education of adults, Webmaster proposes a serious and sustained program to educate members of Boards of Education (because they help determine the extent to which citizens are prepared to be adult learners). Using the Montgomery County Board of Education as an exemplar he plans, in an upcoming series of ‘My Takes’, to discuss this initiative in more detail.