WAKE UP AMERICANS* - If you care about public education you'd better get informed, up to speed and engaged. No one else is going to do it for you !
The Faith-shackled crowd certainly know what they want to do with rational observation and fact-based learning, destroy it. Replacing it with their favorite so-so tribal story telling, ... self-certain, uncritical yarn spinning - that does nothing for preparing us to live with the future world we are ignorantly creating for ourselves.
Can someone say Critical Thinking Skills?
Democracy, live it or lose it. America, it's your move.
For a more complete introduction see here.
* I apologize. I know current sensibilities demand everyone be coddled nonstop or I risk losing their attention. But, I'm over thinking anyone deserves coddling anymore. Let's get real,
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How Trump Could Gut Public Education
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What you should know about Betsy DeVos
Philissa Cramer.
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Trump hires Christian Fundamentalist who doesn’t believe in Public Education as Secretary of Education.
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Philissa Cramer.
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Trump Names Anti-Gay Marriage Activist And Amway Billionaire Betsy DeVos To Be Education Secretary
Strategy for Privatizing Public Schools Spelled out by Dick DeVos in 2002 Heritage Foundation Speech
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Secretary of Education Pick Betsy DeVos May Be a Disaster for Church/State Separation
November 23, 2016 by Hemant Mehta
Donald Trump has selected Michigan Republican Betsy DeVos as his Secretary of Education. While that may sound like a relief when you consider the others who were in the running, DeVos’ appointment should frighten anyone who cares about church/state separation.
DeVos has been a longtime supporter of school voucher programs, which use the pleasant-sounding phrase “school choice” to take money away from public schools and leave them in the dust. (Trump elaborated on his vision of dismantling our public education system while on the campaign trail.)
More pressing on this website is the question of whether parents who want to send their kids to a private religious school would be given taxpayer dollars to do so.
There’s reason to believe she’ll want to make that an option, laws be damned. DeVos grew up in a Religious Right-loving home and gave money to organizations working to push Christian beliefs through the government. As Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Rob Boston wrote in a 2010 profile of her:
Growing up in the strict Calvinist Christian Reformed Church, Betsy DeVos’ antipathy toward public education may run in her blood. She comes from a politically active, socially conservative family. Her parents are Elsa Prince Broekhuizen and the late Edgar Prince, a Michigan couple that has funded the Religious Right for years.
The Princes have provided huge sums to both Focus on the Family and its quasi-affiliate, the Family Research Council (FRC). Even today, the FRC maintains a fulfillment center in Grand Rapids, where the Princes and the DeVoses are based. (Betsy DeVos’ brother, Erik, is notorious in his own right: He founded the controversial international security company Blackwater.)
