BETSY DEVOS WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
DeVos on “60 Minutes” was as bad as Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric.
I’ve decide that the current Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos was the perfect pick by the current president for this position.
As one blogger
recently wrote, just as Trump shows his lack of presidential decorum by calling
long time US Representative, Maxine Waters
a “low IQ individual”, he
should also be calling his Secretary of
Education, “a Low IQ individual.”
In the recent
DeVos’ interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS’s
“60
Minutes,” broadcast, it is now being presented as the most disastrous
televised interview since Palin met Katie Couric.
It was bad
enough when during her original confirmation hearing, she was questioned about the
school systems and she didn’t know the difference between student’s “growth” vs “proficiency”. She was
utterly confused by complex subjects such as “teachers” vs “students”…?
However, she was totally certain that
Alaska schools needed more guns in the classrooms to repel attacks by “potential grizzly bears.”
Now, after a
full year of on-the-job learning, DeVos’s appearance on “60 Minutes” showed no
change in her total ineptitude. It was
pretty much agreed after her appearance on the both CBS and NBC shows, she
was once again performing below any serious grade level in all subjects, and
her poor performance is anything but standard protocol for an American President's Cabinet position.
Here she is,
when she was asked if the public schools in her home state of Michigan had
improved. So, how did she answer?
“I don’t know.”
Why are you
known as the most hated Cabinet secretary?
“I’m not so sure exactly.”
Have you
visited any bad performing Michigan
schools?
“I have not. I have not. I have not intentionally
visited schools that are underperforming.”
When Leslie
Stahl offered the suggestion of: “Maybe you
should.”
Per DeVos: “Maybe I should, yes.”
But then Vos,
expressed her reluctance “to talk about
all schools in general, because schools are made up of individual students.” ?????
As one writer
for The Post wrote: “After 10 minutes of DeVos, the human brain
loses the ability to perform simple arithmetic. After 15 minutes, those in the
presence of DeVos report forgetting the answers to their own personal security
questions, including their first pet’s name and the brand of their first car.”
DeVos is a
multimillionaire only because she married into the Amway fortune. If this
is the caliber of the top education official in the land, it hardly speaks well
for anyone getting a complete education.
After getting to know DeVos, people could quite reasonably conclude that
education isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and why should anyone go to all the
trouble of attending school, let alone college.
The reality is
that for Trump’s success, it’s people like his Education Secretary that will apparently keep him in office. For sure, the fewer people who get an
education, the better off Trump will be.
This is
because exit polls showed a huge education gap in the 2016 election. College
graduates favored Hillary Clinton by nine percentage points, while those
without college degrees favored Trump by eight points. That total 17-point gap
was “by far the widest” dating back
to 1980, this is according to the usually correct Pew
Research Center.
Fortunately,
today more Americans are going to college. That’s according to the National Center for Education Statistics. (By the
way, this department is part of DeVos’s Education Department.) They predict that enrollment of full-time
students in degree-granting institutions, is up 38% between 2000
and 2014, and it will climb an additional 15% by 2025.
And guess
what, DeVos is doing all she can to stop these groups of people from going to
school. She has stated that traditional
public education is at a “dead end”,
and she is personally proving this by her own example. With her as the supposed top educator in the
nation, she is personally confirming that public education is truly at a dead end.
Apparently,
DeVos is trying to make sure that public education eventually becomes scuttled and
is replaced by private Charter Schools. That's even though the education results of
a majority of Charter Schools has been performing below that of many public schools.
But if she
gets her way, public schools will lose more funding every year and Charter
Schools will receive increased funding.
God help us
through this administration!!!
Copyright G.Ater 2018
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