Elect to get involved this summer
May 24th, 2008
Elect to get involved this summer
Statewide election activity is gearing up this summer, with filing periods for local and state offices set in June.
Political hopefuls from around the state will file for county, state and federal elective offices during the three-day period that opens 8 a.m. June 2 and ends 5 p.m. June 4.
Candidates for Garfield County offices will file with Garfield County Election Board. Offices open for election in November are county commissioner District 2, county clerk, court clerk and sheriff.
Candidates for state and national offices file at the State Election Board in the state Capitol in Oklahoma City.
The primary election will be July 29. A runoff primary will be Aug. 29, and the general election will be Nov. 4.
State Election Board Secretary Michael Clingman said anyone interested in filing for an office should contact his or her local county election board or the State Election Board for details. He encouraged potential candidates to ask their questions and to have all their filing papers filled out and in order before going to the election board office or to the Capitol to file.
He also urged candidates to file early in the filing period.
“We expect about half the candidates who will file this year to file on Monday (June 2),” he said. “On Tuesday and Wednesday until about 3 p.m., the pace will be slow. But if history repeats itself, late Wednesday afternoon we will see a rush of last-minute filers.”
Filing with the State Election Board at the Capitol are candidates for 24 odd-numbered state Senate districts, all 101 state House districts, five congressional districts, one U.S. Senate seat and two Corporation Commission offices.
Oklahomans who want to participate in the July primary must be registered no later than May 31.
Oklahoma has two recognized political parties for the 2008 election cycle — Democrats and Republicans.
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May 24th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Good article! I agree with the common sense comments too.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
What about believing the teacher? When did that go away? My mom always thought the teacher was right. Now parents think their kid is an angel and educators are the problem.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Voted down. Incentive based learning is a HORRIBLE tip. Take away the incentive and the child’s ability to learn drops lower than before the incentives were introduced. You’ve got to find a way to encourage a thirst for knowledge, to see learning as fun, not something that requires external reward.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Are you just trying to up points with comments like that? Home schooled kids are a ‘niche market’ in education. The masses, my friend, go to school. The ‘normal’ way. Along with the plenty of other flavors of ‘normal’ education. So get with it. I’m here to read and vote on this because this list touches the very basics of parenting - in other words - Get Involved. Not just home schooled. Get Involved with the Masses Going to School.
May 24th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
It’s also the best way to know what’s going on at your child’s school. Even if you only volunteer to help out on one field trip, you’re going to get a much better idea of how the teacher interacts with the class, and how your child interacts with other students.
May 25th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Well, homeschooling is an option but it doesn’t hurt to have a common sense list for the rest of us that can’t or don’t have the luxury of staying home and must send kids to school. I think the intent was not to put anyone down.. just that all articles can’t cover all segments of the population.
May 25th, 2008 at 1:30 am
I agree; this is the only item on the list that I was pretty shaky about. The rewards will diminish as the child grows older-I think it might be a good idea in other ways, though. Reward the kid with an incentive for further learning. For instance, if the kid does well with his math and science, buy him a chemistry or rocketry kit. Even getting a pizza isn’t a bad idea, if applied toward say, teaching fractions.Of course, not everything must be learning based. Sometimes a token of appreciation is a good thing, as a way of saying “I’m proud of you, keep it up”, a la item 5 on the list.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Ok. This comment sounds COMPLETELY different from your tone and intent in the first comment.The list gives us 10 ways.. I didn’t read it as ‘You fail as a parent if you don’t do this’.With regards to studying with kids, I don’t mind ASKING my daughter what she’s doing and trying to learn along with her. I didn’t read this as saying ‘teach’ your kids which clearly a lot of us are not qualified to. But showing a genuine interest in what they are doing and trying to be involved is a. free, and b. priceless.I try not to assume what the author’s intent is.. I try to interpret what it might mean for me. I have no idea who does or doesn’t have a computer. If you’re reading this, you do.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:11 am
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May 25th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Don’t get your panties in a bunch. I certainly don’t approve of home schooling, I just thought it seemed odd that of the 10 ultimate things you can do to be involved in a child’s education, being the educator wasn’t one of them.Also, if you read my post, you’ll see that I think home schooling is an inadequate option. While I’ve only met a few people who were home schooled, there was only one person who was even remotely normal. His mom had an MBA and thought she could do a better job than any teacher in the state (for K-8). Not only did her kid go on to Princeton, but he was the first person in our high school’s history to go to an Ivy.Every other home schooling parent I know wasn’t working when they made the decision to home school and didn’t have a great job before the kids were born, probably making them unqualified to teach beyond 3rd grade.Further, that list is geared toward upper-middle class white people, who are not the majority in the US. How many middle or lower income families have a tutor? How many single parents can take off from work to go on a field trip? How many minority households are wired with internet access – or even have a computer! You expect them to use a computer to stay on top of things? Study with your kids? If the parent hasn’t graduated from high school, or grammar school, that doesn’t really go past 2nd grade.Now, I recognize that my argument doesn’t hold a lot of water given that the parents without computer access won’t find this list. I just want to make sure you realize you are in favor of a list that should really be called, “How to be the best white parent on your block.”I find lists like this really troubling. This list can do very little to improve the quality of education for just about anyone. Either a parent saw this list and said, “…wow, I’m already doing all of that. Great!” or “Ok, step one: go on a field trip. Step 2: ask lots of questions.” Those parents have read the thousands of lists/columns/books like this one, and have turned in to over active parents impeding their kid’s independence and ability to think for themselves. Helicopter parenting is a disgusting phenomenon plaguing high schools, colleges and universities all over the US because of parents who followed BS lists like these.They were probably the parents who demanded their kid be allowed to re-take a test after their angel cheated.Maybe it is time to put the child psychology books away and just spend some time with your kids. As long as you genuinely love them, they’ll be fine.
May 25th, 2008 at 4:52 am
its important to know wot is it that the child should become? incentive based learning will only help make a child a marketable product…
May 25th, 2008 at 5:43 am
xactly