How Quickly We Forget

Having just watched the News on 6, I was reminded at how very quickly we all seem to forget.

Governor Henry has again surfaced. This time it is to unveil the first three designs for scratch-off lottery tickets. The newscasters kept saying the Oklahoma lottery. No, that's not right. It's the EDUCATION lottery. Don't you remember? Governor Henry himself used the term over and over to sell the unsuspecting and forgetful public to vote for it. It was touted as the economic salvation for everything wrong with public education. Why, with this new stream of revenue, we most certainly can spend our way to Education nirvana. Yeah, right! Don't believe me? Check out this post.

Come on now, fellow Tulsans. Don't let them off so easily. When you speak of the Oklahoma lottery, always refer to it as the Education lottery. That will stick in the craw of our elected officials when it comes up woefully short of revenue predictions.

And by the way, public education will continue to decline. Not that I want it to. I am a product of Tulsa's public education. They have just missed the mark, that's all.