re: DeVos foes now claiming her policies could 'kill children,' ruin public schools

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My 17 year old daughter told me yesterday that one of her teachers told her class that Devos is a bad choice because she is advocating "ending" public schools. She was echoing his argument. I took it as a teaching moment and asked what she knew about Devos. She knew nothing. I then spent about an hour with her researching her ideas and positions. She realized that her teacher was full of shite and I asked her what she thought would motivate her teacher to embellish the facts. She then learned about teachers unions and the fear they have of school choice.

It was really a good exercise for her to learn not to simply echo things she hears without doing some research on the facts.

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This is some seriously good parenting on your part. You're teaching your daughter to think for herself. Mad props on a job well done.

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The Department of Education was created by Jimmy Carter in 1979 as a payback to the teachers unions.

Our education standards and results have went down ever since.

Why do we need the DoE?

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What you did there, I see it......hope you do too

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“will kill children.”

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Just tell them it's late term abortions and they will be on board...

The Sec of Ed has little authority to do anything and the Dept of Ed is basically a toothless organization. I don't understand the hyperbole from opponents.

Code for "she may provide school choice and ruin public school for our unions".

Lets talk about how the transgender and queer approbation insanity is killing people by encouraging them to adopt unhealthy lifestyles.

She is the oldest of 4 and very intelligent. In fact, she will be either Val or Sal this year and her hard work through middle and high school has resulted in the highest (Presidential) academic scholarship awards at two colleges she has applied to.

This just demonstrates how people (not just kids) are susceptible to echoing the ideas of people they consider as authority figures. She and I have had similar conversations in the past and this is just an exercise that needs to be reinforced as she is soon to be exposed to secondary academia.

The DoE's responsibility under DeVos should be:

1. Drag the US into an era of school choice where the quality of your education depends on your own ambition, goals, and priorities rather than what zip code you can afford to live in.

2. Dismantle itself.

The teacher's union, as an entity, has a financial interest in grooming future democrat voters. As the Podesta emails have show, they want an electorate of ill informed drones, as the useful idiots seen in the Berkeley protest

Giving vouchers allows parents that would not have been able to send their kids to private schools the opportunity to. Many of these schools will be Christian schools.
And if there is one thing a true believer Marxist social democrat progressive teacher absolutely hates, it's a Christian.

They have worked tirelessly to keep minorities voting democrat and they have corrupted the information taught with anti american and anti capitalist Marist propaganda.

They fear vouchers will threaten their vote mill that they have worked 30 years to build. Frick the kids, social democrat future voting blocks are at risk, and to an " ends justify the means" progressive , that is all that matters.

Power
Control
Mind manipulation
Building anti capitalist democrat voters
That's why the don't want vouchers. Don't let the frocking progressive posters lie to you about it.