Who Are Those Guys?

A TAPster who doesn’t like the legislature posed a good question, and it is reinforced by a story on the excellent EducationNC (EdNC) website.
 
The TAPster asked: Who exactly are the members of the legislature? Where are they from? Where did they go to school? What are their backgrounds and life experiences? Why do they do what they do?
 
The TAPster wonders how many of the elected representatives shaping North Carolina’s future have a first-hand knowledge of North Carolina’s past or present. The TAPster hopes that someone will research the answers.
 
Which brings us to an EdNC profile written by Alex Granados of Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), who co-chairs both the House K-12 Education Committee and the House Education Appropriations Committee.
 
The profile begins:
 
“(Horne) is the education legislator. It’s an odd moniker considering he only moved to the state in 2005, has no education background and didn’t even start out focused on the subject.
 
“An almost 8-year veteran of the Air Force, Horn made his living as a food broker, retiring in 2002 from his business which he says was the largest food broker in the country at the time. When he retired, he worked with big names such as General Mills, Butterball and ConAgra.”
 
It reminds me of an education professor’s warning to his prospective-teacher students: “Everything you do in the classroom will be dictated by old white men who haven’t been in a classroom since college.”
 
So consider this an invitation, or a challenge, to some researcher to answer the TAPster’s questions. 
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Who Are Those Guys?

A TAPster who doesn’t like the legislature posed a good question, and it is reinforced by a story on the excellent EducationNC (EdNC) website.
 
The TAPster asked: Who exactly are the members of the legislature? Where are they from? Where did they go to school? What are their backgrounds and life experiences? Why do they do what they do?
 
The TAPster wonders how many of the elected representatives shaping North Carolina’s future have a first-hand knowledge of North Carolina’s past or present. The TAPster hopes that someone will research the answers.
 
Which brings us to an EdNC profile written by Alex Granados of Rep. Craig Horn (R-Union), who co-chairs both the House K-12 Education Committee and the House Education Appropriations Committee.
 
The profile begins:
 
“(Horne) is the education legislator. It’s an odd moniker considering he only moved to the state in 2005, has no education background and didn’t even start out focused on the subject.
 
“An almost 8-year veteran of the Air Force, Horn made his living as a food broker, retiring in 2002 from his business which he says was the largest food broker in the country at the time. When he retired, he worked with big names such as General Mills, Butterball and ConAgra.”
 
It reminds me of an education professor’s warning to his prospective-teacher students: “Everything you do in the classroom will be dictated by old white men who haven’t been in a classroom since college.”
 
So consider this an invitation, or a challenge, to some researcher to answer the TAPster’s questions. 
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