Get ready to pay taxes to fund religious schools! Hurray!
November 23, 2016 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2016 at 7:10 pm by Aroura.)
Ok, I suck at leaving. I did leave for a couple of days, but where would I even go? I can barely leave my house.
Anyway, so Trump announced today his pick for Secretary of Education. Betsy DeVos.
Listen, the first couple of days after the election, I was extremely upset, but then we started hearing that Trumps wouldn't build a wll or make a Muslim registry, and there were a lot of cries of "give him a chance". So I tried. Really, I thought, maybe it won't be nearly as bad as I thought. The violence and anger will die down, and it'll just be politics as usual anyway.
But it isn't. White nationalists, climate change deniers and religious fanatics abound. NASA climate studies will be defunded, and hey, maybe that Muslim registry will be a thing after all.
But this was it, this is the straw that broke my back. This person, who's husband owns Amway, who is wishes to dismantle public schools in favor of vouchers when that has only ever widened the disparity gap, who approves of "Christian Education", who has almost no qualifications except being part of the rich people's suck up to Trump club, is going to be Secretary of Education???
Look, I homeschool because public education is a mess, so I get it. I feel our public school system needs a major overhaul. I would back major changes. First, we need to stop with the anti-intellectualism, and show good teachers respect, and pay them what they are worth. There are so many working models of public education to pick from, but we are going to get under regulated private voucher programs, Christian schools paid for with tax dollars, and who know how many profiteers running off with the money while kids get shitty educations. The whole country will become one giant Trump University.
Trump Chooses another unqualified, wealthy, suck up
But yes, Hillary would have been "equally bad".
Anyway, so Trump announced today his pick for Secretary of Education. Betsy DeVos.
Listen, the first couple of days after the election, I was extremely upset, but then we started hearing that Trumps wouldn't build a wll or make a Muslim registry, and there were a lot of cries of "give him a chance". So I tried. Really, I thought, maybe it won't be nearly as bad as I thought. The violence and anger will die down, and it'll just be politics as usual anyway.
But it isn't. White nationalists, climate change deniers and religious fanatics abound. NASA climate studies will be defunded, and hey, maybe that Muslim registry will be a thing after all.
But this was it, this is the straw that broke my back. This person, who's husband owns Amway, who is wishes to dismantle public schools in favor of vouchers when that has only ever widened the disparity gap, who approves of "Christian Education", who has almost no qualifications except being part of the rich people's suck up to Trump club, is going to be Secretary of Education???
Look, I homeschool because public education is a mess, so I get it. I feel our public school system needs a major overhaul. I would back major changes. First, we need to stop with the anti-intellectualism, and show good teachers respect, and pay them what they are worth. There are so many working models of public education to pick from, but we are going to get under regulated private voucher programs, Christian schools paid for with tax dollars, and who know how many profiteers running off with the money while kids get shitty educations. The whole country will become one giant Trump University.
Trump Chooses another unqualified, wealthy, suck up
But yes, Hillary would have been "equally bad".
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
