Betsy DeVos
US Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos is Secretary of
Education. What!? I believe and accept it. But I don't like it and will do what
I can to resist her actions to dismantle and drain the swamp at the US
Department of Education. Here's what DOE (ED) does, from its official website:
Overview and Mission
Statement
ED's mission is to promote
student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering
educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. ED's 4,400 employees and $68 billion budget are dedicated to:
- Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds.
- Collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research.
- Focusing national attention on key educational issues.
- Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
"Ignoramus" -
"A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a
fool." In terms of her qualifications to lead this department, the one
that oversees education across our nation, she is "totally ignorant",
"uneducated", and "uninformed". As for being a
"fool" that applies to more than her. Being utterly unqualified she
nevertheless accepted the post. Only a fool would do that. The bigger fools are
the person who nominated her and those in the Senate who voted to approve her.
Utter fools!
How is she going to lead this
department's effort to "promote preparation for global
competitiveness" by dismantling it and sending all authority over
education to the states and local communities, where home schooling, creationism
as equivalent evolutionary biology, and charter school segregation can expand?
Do you think US students are
weak now compared to other countries in their knowledge of science, math,
history, geography, and critical thinking? Wait until our children's education
goes totally local and our kids graduate and lay some "creation
science" and "alternative facts" on them at international
professional conferences. Boy, that sure will demonstrate we are globally
competitive, won't it!? That is, if our locally-schooled attendees know enough
about international geography to find their way to the meeting in the first
place.
Me? Just a whiny, snowflake
liberal elitist who is intolerant of alternative facts and other points of view
- attended public schools throughout, BA, MS, PHD; Peace Corps Volunteer
science teacher 1980-83; school board chairman, Lincoln Community School,
Accra, Ghana 1988-89.
No, don't even start. Every
time I stop at a yard sale here in Fayette County, Georgia and go through the
home school science books being sold, every one of them is creation science
published at Bob Jones University. And no, charter schools are not better for
most families, especially not for poor families who can't afford them;
improving public schools is.
Yes, I'm very unhappy about
what the president is doing. His picks for Justice, State, Health, and Housing
and Urban Development were bad enough. But to me, a lover of knowledge and
education, the choice and confirmation of DeVos was the absolute worst.
Join this patriot and many
others who love our already great country and who don't support what is being
done to it and its institutions, including the Department of Education. Resist
and prepare for the November 6, 2018 election!
