Betsy DeVos: Threat or Menace?

[OldJourno]

The Department of Education nominee stands in stark contrast to one of the first acts of the Obama administration, which was to take away scholarships that allowed poor children in D.C. to escape from the miserable public schools there.
DeVos favors school choice and other options that would give children a chance. I've lived in a number of communities and have reported on and edited stories about the pathetic math and reading skills of public school students.
Democrats in Congress are beholden to the teacher unions and their cash. To them, DeVos is both a threat and menace.
What's your opinion?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The Department of Education nominee stands in stark contrast to one of the first acts of the Obama administration, which was to take away scholarships that allowed poor children in D.C. to escape from the miserable public schools there.
DeVos favors school choice and other options that would give children a chance. I've lived in a number of communities and have reported on and edited stories about the pathetic math and reading skills of public school students.
Democrats in Congress are beholden to the teacher unions and their cash. To them, DeVos is both a threat and menace.
What's your opinion?

We've already got 100% school choice.

 

[OldJourno]

We've already got 100% school choice.

Arizona has charter schools. They are "free" just like the public schools, with a waiting list. Arizona also offers free online schools.
The charter here puts the public high schools to shame in terms of overall student achievement.
In much of the rest of the nation, however, choice is only for people with money to spend. DeVos wants to change that.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The Department of Education nominee stands in stark contrast to one of the first acts of the Obama administration, which was to take away scholarships that allowed poor children in D.C. to escape from the miserable public schools there.

Which act was this specifically and why did it target only poor children in D.C.?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Arizona has charter schools. They are "free" just like the public schools, with a waiting list. Arizona also offers free online schools.
The charter here puts the public high schools to shame in terms of overall student achievement.
In much of the rest of the nation, however, choice is only for people with money to spend. DeVos wants to change that.

As a point of fact no she doesn't.

Please post the data.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Neither.

Unless you are a control-freak Progressive Liberal, in which case, she is a threat to you now that you are out of power and not in charge...

*chuckle*

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We've already got 100% school choice.

You are 100% free to choose whatever you want. This is true.

If you have discretionary income, you can get your child out of a failing public school.

If you do not, you can home school. If you are a single parent working two part-time Obamacare jobs just to pay the rent, then you have the choice of a failing public school or having the state take your child and put her/him into foster care.

But no teacher is harmed by this system. The union sees to that.

 

[about_average]

The Department of Education nominee stands in stark contrast to one of the first acts of the Obama administration, which was to take away scholarships that allowed poor children in D.C. to escape from the miserable public schools there.
DeVos favors school choice and other options that would give children a chance. I've lived in a number of communities and have reported on and edited stories about the pathetic math and reading skills of public school students.
Democrats in Congress are beholden to the teacher unions and their cash. To them, DeVos is both a threat and menace.
What's your opinion?

The schools she's heavily promoted and spent millions lobbying for, in her state perform significantly below the state national average because she also wants little to no accountability. so poor are the performance results that even school choice/charter school advocates say they are a failure.

Yeah, I'd say shes a threat and menace, to children.

I'm sure she'll easily win confirmation.

 

[Conager]

The schools she's heavily promoted and spent millions lobbying for, in her state perform significantly below the state national average because she also wants little to no accountability. so poor are the performance results that even school choice/charter school advocates say they are a failure.

Yeah, I'd say shes a threat and menace, to children.

I'm sure she'll easily win confirmation.

Interesting parse. Since when do children in Detroit Public Schools compared favorably with the national average? How about if you compare children in inner city Detroit public schools with inner city Detroit charter schools? You know compare apples to apples like an actual good academic might? Same students same parents same environment?

... or you could just quote the bullshit statistics from that article in Michigan papers parrots bullshit statistics from the teachers union?

Like you just did.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I spent a career working with white trash, nigger, and wetback families. The problem aint the schools, the problem is the ethnic hoods the kids come from. Try this at home. White kids are all inside by sundown. Mexican kids do chores till late in the evening. Nigger kids are out on the street till late at night.

The white mom works at WALMART and needs the school to babysit the kids. The wetback mom cleans motel rooms and needs a school baby sitter, too. Nigger mom doesn't work, she and the kids stay home and seep.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The schools she's heavily promoted and spent millions lobbying for, in her state perform significantly below the state national average because she also wants little to no accountability. so poor are the performance results that even school choice/charter school advocates say they are a failure.

Yeah, I'd say shes a threat and menace, to children.

I'm sure she'll easily win confirmation.

Interesting parse. Since when do children in Detroit Public Schools compared favorably with the national average? How about if you compare children in inner city Detroit public schools with inner city Detroit charter schools? You know compare apples to apples like an actual good academic might? Same students same parents same environment?

... or you could just quote the bullshit statistics from that article in Michigan papers parrots bullshit statistics from the teachers union?

Like you just did.

*chuckle*