Betsy DeVos is Bad Mmmmkay ...you can help

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What IS bad is the high-grading of the children in the neighborhoods for the primary goal of increasing private profit with public money.

I'm completely fine with private schools--run with private money. Religious schools, private money. Having public funds pay to teach *any* child that humans rode around on dinosaurs is wrong.

Back on topic, this DeVos character should be kept far, far away from the levers of power that control our educational system, such that they are. She's a dangerous ideologue. LOCAL CONTROL is her guiding star. On the surface, a good idea. But not to the exclusion of everything else, like federal laws and common fucking sense.

Let's go to the video tape!



DeVos says guns in schools... meh, I don't want to tell people what to do. JFC.

And she's unwilling to commit to not taking money away from public schools...

Originally Posted by Patty Murray asking Betsy DeVos answering

"Can you commit to us tonight that you will not work to privatize public schools or cut a single penny from public education?" asked Sen. Patty Murray, Democrat from Washington.

"I look forward, if confirmed, to working with you to talk about how we address the needs of all parents and all students," DeVos said. "We acknowledge today that not all schools are working for the students that are assigned to them. I'm hopeful that we can work together to find common ground and ways that we can solve those issues and empower parents to make choices on behalf of their children that are right for them."

The beat goes on and on and on. She's a hard core.. capitalist in the area of public education. She's consistently displayed attitudes similar to timber barons who surveyed the endless forests in the west and saw resources ripe for the picking. Don't regulate me, just keep making schoolkids for me to harvest money from.

Fuck Betsy DeVos.

(are we clear now tw?