(February 7, 2017 at 5:17 pm)Cecelia Wrote: As a teacher, I think that Donald Trump and the 51 Republicans who voted to confirm DeVos (including Mike Pence) have done a great disservice to Public Education. Conservatives will love the move because she hates teachers, and thinks we're overpaid. Of course she spends more on buying senators than most teachers make in a year. The woman is the embodiment of corruption, and an enemy to public education. And now she's the head of it. It's like putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse. I say fuck Betsy DeVos and her corporate cronyism.
Teachers make so much money that my wife scrapped five years of college education (pre-k through 6th license) and went back to school to become an RN.
We saw the writing on the wall back in the late 90s. Many people don't value education, and they have nothing but contempt for the people who teach their children.
Of course this has little impact on people who send their kids to private schools. Its regular families who send their kids to public schools that will get the shaft. It almost feels like an overt attempt to separate kids into social and economic castes.
I've been saying this a lot lately, but I'm glad i don't have children.
“Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.”
