Jeb Bush and His views on Education:
I chose to watch an interview with Jeb Bush at the Governors
Annual Summit that dealt with his view on education in America. Eric got my
interest going when he started talking about the presidential race in 2016 and
mentioned that we may get another Bush in the Whitehouse.
I don't know anything about Jeb Bush or his political view
so I started looking into a few of his speeches. The one that I watched first
and the one that I am writing about was a potion of a longer interview on his
view on education namely his brothers No Child Left Behind initiative that he
endorsed when George W. Bush was president. It would be ignorant of me to say
that George W came up with it so I will say endorsed instead. I will attempt to
critique this interview from BJ Fogg's Behavioral Change Model. His model
includes Motivation, Abilities, and Triggers.
Motivation:
Jeb Bush's motivation is to become the President of the
United States of America, and become the 3rd Bush to do so. In attempting this
great feat, he has to run the gauntlet of questions about the rights and wrongs
of his brother’s presidency. The interview starts out with a question about the
no child left behind act. He is asked about his view of the acts effectiveness
and if it is working today in America. He defends the reason that it was put
into place saying that it forced states that were sitting on the fence on
education issues to get involved and improve their education programs in those
states. He stated that the act was successful in doing that. It was interesting
that he pointed out that 20% of students today don't graduate high school at
all and made the comment that "that is failure". I don't think that
he was trying to put his brother and the No Child Left behind Act on blast but
he did mention that it wasn't as effective as it was meant to be. I think that
Jeb Bush is motivated to point this out to make himself look as if he is
unafraid to say that his brothers programs in some ways could be better. I like
his honesty in that regard. I feel that he should be motivated to be as honest
as possible about some of the hard questions dealing with "W's" presidency
which will set him up to succeed in a presidential race in the long run. I
think that he would do well to separate himself as much as possible from his
dad and brother and find his own political identity.
Abilities:
As far as basic abilities, I think that he is much more
charismatic than his brother and speaks very well publicly. He doesn't stutter,
he speaks clear and seems to carry himself in a very calm and professional
manner. I liked George W because what you saw was what you got but Jeb appears
to be much smarter and articulates much more effectively. I like his point of
view that we need to have higher education standard on a State and National
level rather then dumbing down curriculum today. He didn't explain in detail
what that meant being that it was such a short interview but I would hope that
he means that when he says that. He stated that we need to set higher bench
marks for education to compete with the entire world. He stated that we are far
behind the world in education yet we spend more per child than any other
country in the world. He has a great ability to get his point across and sound
clear and concise in doing so. He is a supporter of Common Core which I thought
was interesting. I don't know much about common core at all. But I thought that
he for some reason would not be in support of it.
Triggers:
I think that some of
the triggers that he stated or covered were simply speaking to some of the
issues that everyone in interested in. Like I mentioned above I was surprised
to hear that he was in support of Common Core. I think that speaking about it
is a trigger which got me to listen closer to what he was saying. His honesty
that the No Child Left behind Act could be more effective stood out to me as a
trigger as well. He was not a supporter of more testing as well. He thinks that
we need to test less which I found was different as well. I think that he is
relatable and easy to listen to. The way that he spoke and answered the interviewer’s
questions calmly and quickly put me at ease. In a weird way he is much more
refreshing to listen to than His brother who stuttered and laughed at his own
jokes, and president Obama that says the word Um 40 - 50 times a speech. His
calm laid back demeanor has a calming effect on me. Over all I think that I
would be much more inclined to listen to other speeches, debates, and
interviews by Jeb Bush having only listened to a short 4:07 interview on some
of his view on education.
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