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+jhonny maarch - Unlike you, my perspectives are sculpted from many different sources, not just Betsy Devos's personal website. In fact, most of my information on this matter in particular has been from watching Betsy Devos herself unfold her dangerous reforms in our education system.
Let's take a look at your Betsy Devos fan page for a second. It says "Betsy has been a national leader in the fight to boldly reform America’s broken education system by giving parents more options for their children’s education." If you were to actually take a look at Devos's policies and look at her from an outside standpoint, not just from her fan page, which says absolutely nothing about HOW she plans to implement her education reforms, you would be able to realize that she is for diverting federal funds that go towards public schools towards charter schools and private schools.
If we look at Devos's track record, you will notice that she ran a line of charter schools in Michigan that were run into the ground, in which the schools under-performed in countless ways and the students tested the worst in the state. This was a result of her deregulating the education system and allowing for-profit operators to dominate these alternative schools that allow for "options among parents" like you say. Here's a link of my own by the way: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-michigan-school-experiment-232399
Its been highly debated around the entire country that charter schools generally just don't work and give consistently poor test results while draining the life from public schools in the same districts because it takes funds away from public schools. Now for Devos making private schools an option, this is even more of an issue because it would lead to all the wealthy families in districts sending their children to the private schools instead, separating the financial classes and successfully taking away any donations these families may have made to their districts and the public schools that would've given all children in their district a better education. Even if these schools are run primarily on tuition, Devos may end up putting federal funds towards new private schools so her "options for parents" goal can be achieved, which would, again, result in taking away funds for public schools.
Her policy for our primary school education system is very simple: take funds away from education for the poor families and give them to education for wealthy families, whilst also giving the funds to for-profit operators that will send poor students to schools with even worse education. Devos's views and policies on our college funding is even worse considering she just removed regulations protecting grad students of harassment from debt collectors for their college debts.
Besides her dangerous and backwards-thinking policies, which the vast majority of professors and education experts have agreed are very bad for our education system, she is completely unqualified for her current cabinet position in all aspects. Besides her failed charter schools, she has never held office, never run any type of trust or bank (she is in charge of the entire education budget now), never attended public school, her children have never attended public school, she has never had student loans, her children have never had student loans, and never had any professional, personal, or first-hand experience with any of the education issues at all. You can now start to understand why she doesn't like public schools and is deciding to defund them in favor of starting wealthy private schools and soon-to-be massive charter school failures.
Two other separate egregious issues involve her openly stating that guns possibly have a place in schools. Her explanation was for in case the teacher had to defend against "grizzlies." I won't even go into why that is so wrong. Secondly, (and I said this before) she essentially had bought her way into the Secretary of Education position. Her family has donated around $200 million to the Republican party and she thinks she's "entitled to some form of payback". This fact actually starts to make sense of why she was even nominated by Trump in the first place, but nevertheless, this is completely corrupt, unethical, immoral and wrong. Is this really the best example to be giving to children since she's now the head of education? That it's OKAY to be corrupt and buy your way into political office (a very very important position too).
Now, if you took the time to read my comment, you might actually see that I have focused on Devos's history and policy points, not just the "About Me" section on her fan page that explains a lot of nothing. If you want to call me closed minded and in a "prison of the mind" again, you might want to start looking inward towards yourself and contemplate whether you're actually the closed minded one who wants to just believe anything you see on a betsydevos.com page.
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