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DeVos: Defund public schools, then reopen them
DeVos: Defund public schools, then reopen them
Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press
What planet has Betsy DeVos been quarantining on?
And why is she beating up, yet again, on the public school districts her U.S. Department of Education was created to help?
In case you've been in a coma since the man who began his career by defrauding the Educational Testing Service became president, DeVos is the high-net-worth individual Donald Trump tapped to be his Secretary of Education back in 2017, or about 19,127 false or misleading claims ago.
She lives on Planet MAGA, working from her gated estate in an exclusive enclave of sycophantic billionaires not far from White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's cold water walk-up in the planet's industrial district. DeVos' oblivious disinterest in the circumstances of ordinary Americans she is to white entitlement what Ru Paul is to drag may account for her unfamiliarity with the pandemic crisis in which most of native country is mired.
Back here on Planet Earth, public school administrators are spending their own summers trying to figure out how they're going to keep classrooms staffed and COVID-free at a time when the tax revenues their districts rely on are shrinking. ..........(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2020/07/09/betsy-devos-part-time-school/5398699002/?fbclid=IwAR2kNV50DCRlzf2v2RMI1D3U6ATtuyD8QfrgERMovr-dbo-v2lUDAESktyI
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DeVos: Defund public schools, then reopen them (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2020
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Budi
(15,325 posts)1. DeVos wants funding for Public Schools moved to the ChristoFascist Schools
That's it in a nutshell.
Taxpayer funded christofascist schools.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)3. Simple as that.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)2. Open them up again as what?
love_katz
(2,579 posts)4. Budy nailed it.
Cruella Deville wants all the public funding for Christofascist schools, the better to brainwash and indoctrinate the future mindless slaves that her billionaire class desires. I hate her and all their ilk with the power of every star in the universe!
czarjak
(11,269 posts)5. Republican Wet-Dream come true.
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