First, Betsey DeVos said that it wasn't her dept's responsibility to help schools during covid and now she's claiming that public schools are trying to replace the family. What would you say to DeVos if you could? #voteherout

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Let’s look at her qualifications to head public education:
1. She attended public... um, no. Private, religious schools herself.
2. Her children attended public... um, no. Private, religious schools. All four of them.
3. She attended a public... um, no. She attended a private, religious university.
4. She has a degree in edu... um, no. She has a BA in business.
5. She has lots and lots of money. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
6. She is a Republican and has donated lots of money to trump before she was appointed by him as secretary of education. Ding! Ding! Ding! Another winner!

The empty bookshelves behind her in pictures say it all.

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I teach in public school and am highly effective and my kids all went to private school should I not be teaching. Hopefully she is surrounded by people that have the experience your talking about and as we see everyday public school experience does not necessarily mean you are good at what you do.

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Where your children attend school has nothing to do with your qualifications as an educator. I assume you have education training and certification. In addition, you are continually updating skills and knowledge of the in education.

The fact that Ms. DeVos does has no personal knowledge or skills in education (especially public education for which the department of education is responsible) makes her highly NOT qualified for the job/position she currently holds. This is a systemic problem in education. Education policy being decided by those have little to no knowledge of the “in the trenches”problems pushing personal agendas that make issues worse.

Surely,as an educator in public education, you would have some reservations if your BOE wanted to hire a former investment banker as the principal of your school. There are educators in the building and the person may have a lot of great skills, but that does not qualify them to be a principal.

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I have been so busy teaching f2f and remote, I have no idea what this woman is saying. I will be looking for the news reports. But yes. This woman has no place making decisions for public schools.

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I’m voting for Trump 😊

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Read what trump says. You’d fail a student who wrote that on an assignment.

Public school typically replace the family when the family doesn’t step up.

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Not sure you have a handle on what this argument entails.

She’s clueless!

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I would tell her that she bought her way into this position and has no idea what she is doing. And if she smiles one more time while she tells a lie......

Shocked any educator would think she’s doing a good job.

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Just saying glad she called woke Princeton out on the sh*t and I bet you dollars to donuts Princetons going to say they’re not racist behind closed doors, because they want their money

Take a long walk off of a short ship plank on her yacht.

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Stop. Just stop.

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Let’s face it public education sucks! Too much dumming down... sorry but I’m for school choice

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You are going to have to explain that one because it makes no sense.

http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf

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Your link lost me at socialist conspiracy and “new world order,” widely interpreted to be linked with Anti-semitism. Our education system will forever be flawed because it is a “system.” Since the loss of the one-room school house, this will forever be true to some extent. In the small schoolhouse, students did not move on to new material until they had mastered it. Teaching, the highest form of learning, was done by both teacher and students. If Johnny needed help with algebra, the teacher could ask an older student or one that had mastered the material to teach it to Johnny. There was accountability and no need for “social promotion.” Plus, parents totally supported teachers. The one-room school house just was not sustainable in the post WW2 era, as we all know about the Baby Boom and the record number of schools being built in the 50s and 60s. The “system “ that was put in place was not a deliberate attempt to dumb down anything. It was a response to the increasing population of children and a cost-saving measure by placing a large number of students with just one teacher, segregated by grades and age so older and younger kids no longer learned from each other in the same classroom.

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I can't get your link to work.
Anyway,

I highly recommend everyone that is engaging with the MS Se teacher to actually read about what is happening with Princeton.
The DoE is investigating Princeton, for violations of 1964 civil rights violations. Based on reports and statements by the president of Princeton.
This investigation, will result in an interesting duality; there are not violations, but there is definitely systemic racism. If we lived in a reasonable society, it would lead to a strengthened new civil rights act.
This won't happen, because as MSSE implied, this about teaching those woke liberals to shut up, not fix actual problems.

MSS2: As someone who listens to what public school kids say about minorities, we still need a lot of work in the equality area. As for the other things you speak of, well, that door swings both ways on both sides.
I prefer my kids learn about the real world and America’s place in it in all its joyous messiness, with all its colorful population, and looking with a sharp eye at all its past foulness, and helping attain its future glory and, yes, to be on the lookout for any horribleness. And I am so proud that my kids, when they invite their friends over, I see a rainbow of skin colors, a variety of languages, and yes, even kids who aren’t all straight. And yup, I attribute much of that to who they meet and who they are exposed to in the very public schools they have grown up attending. And to teachers who aren’t afraid to teach “hard history” or delve into difficult topics. I think my kids deserve to hear more than just my POV, as open as I try to be. What I teach at home should give them a grounding and serve as a launch pad from which they explore the entire world.
At least, that’s my ideal! 🤷‍♀️

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