Reading various articles on the Race to the Top school reform and money grabbing effort to throw more money into our failing educational system, I am amazed how much of our government doesn't learn or listen.

They (our Lansing elected officials)are asking the MEA (Michigan Teachers Union) to approve the reform measures without letting them have the opportunity to read the reforms. I may not be a big supporter of the MEA but isn't that what we all bitched about with the Health Care Bill. And the stimulus bill. No one read them but voted for them.

When will our legislatures learn? Post it online and let every one read the bill before a vote is taken. Let everyone read the reform plan before approving it. Do things on a timely basis, not at the last minute. Plan ahead. Hell, just plain plan would be good.

Even though many of the reforms are long overdue, it is just plain old R-E-S-P-E-C-T for all involved to allow them to read the proposed reforms. I thought it was only our Washington Congress who didn't read the bill. I guess I was wrong.