The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan released the following statement on the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education:
Kary Moss, Executive Director of the ACLU of Michigan, issued the following statement on the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education:
We strongly urge Congress to scrutinize the record of Betsy DeVos, who has been a staunch proponent of school vouchers, a misguided idea that diverts taxpayer dollars into private and parochial schools and perverts the bedrock American value of separation of church and state. She and her husband served as the primary fundraisers and engine for a Michigan ballot initiative –Kids First! Yes! Coalition that voters soundly rejected in 2000.
She has ardently supported the unlimited, unregulated growth of charter schools in Michigan, elevating for-profit schools with no consideration of the severe harm done to traditional public schools. She’s done this despite overwhelming evidence that proves that charters do no better at educating children than traditional public schools and serve only to exacerbate funding problems for cash-strapped public districts. We believe that all children have a right to a quality public education, and we fear that Betsy DeVos’ relentless advocacy of charter schools and vouchers betrays these principles.
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The hypocrisy is amazing. The devos family donated millions to the Grand Rapids public schools – and not a single word about that.
Why is that?
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Because Betsy is committed to vouchers?
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I heard Mussolini made the trains run on time. Why doesn’t he get credit. Hitler built a highway system.
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And he brought the Volkswagen. People still refer to him in that context. Where do you think Eisenhower got the idea for the interstate system?
Again my question: YOUR group comes up with an idea of how to make public schools work and work together with those who you disagree with and who knows, you just might come up with an improvement.
Right now all I see is hatred – and that really does not help the students you all claim to love so much.
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Rudy,
Your constant negativism is tiresome.
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Obviously she’s also committed to public schools. I mean, why pour in millions if you don’t believe in something???
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“I heard Mussolini made the trains run on time.”
I was going to use that line the other day but I figured it would not be P.C.
The difference between Italy ,Wiemar Germany and the USA today could prove to be a matter of time. How will Trump react to civil disobedience, will we be looking at McCarthy and Patton rolling tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue.
For those that don’t remember
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief4.htm
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Rudy, the original VW beetle was a death car. Gas tank up front, battery under the rear seat and erratic and dangerous handling in cross winds. It’s the reformers who spew all the hatred against public schools, their teachers and unions. Chris Christie is a prime example of hatred against public schools with all his terrible statements.
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DeVos believes that America should be a Christian Nation (she would be a close ally to Richard Spencer, Steve Bannon, and the ALT RIGHT), and she is right in line with her brother Eric Prinz, who runs a business selling mercenaries to fight battles for the world’s demagogues. This family profits off a ponzi scheme business that hurts uninformed underlings, often Latinas, and off world wide murder.
I have just signed the letter from Carol Burris and NPE to my two Dem Senators directing them not to allow DeVos not to be ordained the leader of American education. Hope everyone does the same, and forwards the NPE letter to all your lists. I added my a bit of my own language to it.
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Folks here know how venture villainthropy works.
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Rudy, when did they donate money to the public schools? In her more recent statements she sneering refers to the public schools as government schools. Not meant as a complement. She hates the real public schools.
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*sneeringly
*compliment
*comma after statements
*sentence fragment
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Do you have any proof to back up this claim? I would be interested to see it.
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-more-school-choice-but-not-better-schools.html
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I’m sure this will lead to nothing.
Just like when the ACLU warned of Duncan and King???
This doesn’t matter. DeVos sucks. So did her predecessors. They all want reform and privatization. Wake me up when someone wants to really resist these motherfunkers or when I need to clear out my desk at school. Whichever.
Same as its been for the past 8 in education, but probably with less pseudo-lefty social justice nonsense that the reformers deployed under Obama. Just worse everywhere else.
I just don’t want folks to somehow summon more outrage now that its Trump and not Obama. On Ed it’s going to be the same. Just as it would have with HRC.
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Obama did NOT coalesce with the Nazi movement in America and with Spencer and the ALT RIGHT, and with Bannon and his Brown Shirts. It behooves us all to fight this and not snooze, NYC teacher.
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/04/27/here-are-corporations-and-right-wing-funders-backing-education-reform-movement/210054
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This list has some curious omissions. Why no reference to Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton Family?
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Agree Diane…and why Broad is so quiet when this is all about his hometown of Detroit? And why he has not infused some of his wealth into the public schools he actually attended which were good enough to educate him to go on to become a billionaire?
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He is an ideologue and evidence doesn’t persuade him. He calls himself “relentless,” which means he looks to his gut for information
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The following link is a subset of the “Michigan” related articles in the Charters & Choice: A Closer Look collection: http://www.scoop.it/t/charter-choice-closer-look?q=Michigan. Here’s the full set: http://bit.ly/chart_look.
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Why Trump Really Won Wisconsin And Pennsylvania
There’s been a lot of talk online over the last day about mysterious results in these two states, and whether the election could have been hacked. But when you look at the actual data, there’s no indication there was fraud — in fact, Trump’s victories follow patterns seen across the country, regardless of the type of ballot.
Posted on November 23, 2016, at 11:01 p.m.
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Two weeks after the shock of Donald Trump’s victory wore off and reality set in, some are alleging that the voting in key Midwestern swing states was somehow “hacked.” These people contend this may be the real reason three states that have voted Democratic over the last seven to eight presidential cycles (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) narrowly flipped to Donald Trump in 2016.
But Trump really won, and he won in exactly the way you would have expected him to win if he was going to win at all. The results mirror patterns seen across these states, regardless of their type of ballot, and across the country with respect to class and formal education.
The DecisionDeskHQ is a nonpartisan group of elections analysts and volunteers whose job is to tabulate votes on election day and project winners in real time, providing an alternative to the Associated Press. We partnered with BuzzFeed on its election-night coverage and are experts in both the recent and historical voting trends of swing states. We have dealt with this sort of data on a near-daily basis for over four years now.
We will now explain in detail how Trump’s victories in two key states — Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — not only suggest no evidence of fraud, but in fact track with national trends in every conceivable way. Buckle up.
Wisconsin
Let’s begin with Wisconsin, as it forms the core of the accusations of vote hacking currently being floated.
According to New York magazine, the Hillary-backing consortium of “prominent computer scientists and election lawyers” making allegations of potential vote fraud offered only one detail: “Clinton received 7% fewer votes in [Wisconsin] counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots.” Details beyond this one charge have not been forthcoming, but if this is their “key claim” then it is extremely weak.
Technically speaking, the claim is true: Trump did happen to perform well in many counties that used electronic-only voting. (This handy PDF lists exactly which counties and towns in Wisconsin used optical scanning of ballots versus electronic-only voting.) He also often performed better than the man with whom he shared a ballot: Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who ironically defeated his Democratic opponent by a larger margin than Trump did Hillary Clinton (3% versus 1%).
So does that suggest that fraud may have been in the mix? No. The data in fact suggests the opposite.
Voting technologies and election processes differ wildly from state to state. Wisconsin in particular has a decentralized system run on a county/township level, so any fraud would have had to be a massively micro-targeted effort involving hundreds of precincts, literally on the machine level. (Presumably this would require a commensurate level of manpower — it could not be done remotely, as these machines are not connected externally to the internet or networked together.)
Even if all that happened, we would have expected to see inexplicable results in certain regions, as outcomes that had been “hacked” in advance ran bizarrely counter to national trends. And yet the vote shift in Wisconsin follows that of every other state across the entire Rust Belt (specifically Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota).
That trend is unmistakeable: Donald Trump ignited the white working class of these small towns, exurbs, and rural areas in a way few prior Republican candidates ever had, in many cases converting them from Obama voters to Trump supporters.
If Trump did well in what we think of as blue-collar areas, though, he also tended to run behind his Republican ballotmates in white middle-class suburban regions that in previous cycles supported Republican presidential candidates, and which — critically, as it provides a direct comparison for us — supported Ron Johnson in Wisconsin in 2016 in line with those same historical trends.
In other words, there is no correlation to whether Trump ran ahead of or behind Johnson in Wisconsin on the basis of whether a county uses electronic-only voting. Instead, the correlation is clearly mappable onto geography and demography.
In the educated urban and suburban areas of Wisconsin Trump bled votes to both Hillary Clinton and Gary Johnson that Ron Johnson did not. In Waukesha County — a traditional Wisconsin blood-red GOP stronghold in the suburbs of Milwaukee — Clinton got 8,000 more votes than Russ Feingold (the Democratic Senate candidate), while Gary Johnson pulled a remarkable 4% of the vote on average in the three main Milwaukee collar counties. (Yes, that’s right: Many educated white-collar Republicans in the Milwaukee suburbs voted for a “Johnson & Johnson” ticket.)
Meanwhile, in points north and west of the Milwaukee collar counties, in rural and working-class areas heavy with white voters lacking college degrees, Trump ran significantly better than Ron Johnson. The fact that many of these voters were likely Democrats is suggested by how Trump outperformed Johnson, a much more traditional Republican candidate.
The “Trump/Feingold” voter was a very real phenomenon outside the Milwaukee suburbs and the northeastern Fox Valley area, especially in the counties surrounding La Crosse and Eau Claire. These are precisely the sorts of places where doctrinaire Republican Senate candidates have historically failed to gain much purchase, yet where Trump’s blue-collar and anti-trade appeals appear to have resonated.
In Sauk County, a Democratic-leaning small-town and rural county, both Clinton and Feingold won. But, tellingly, Clinton did far worse than Feingold, nearly losing the county with 47.4-46.9%. Meanwhile Feingold won handily, with 52.5-44.5%. The clear difference-maker? Trump/Feingold voters.
The key thing about Sauk County: They use optical scanners and paper ballots.
Trump’s overperformance can’t be attributed to electronic-only balloting and a mysterious “hacked vote.” It is but one example of Trump’s overperformance among white Midwestern voters outside of urban/suburban enclaves, one that was replicated all across the rest of Wisconsin. In nearby Iowa County (whose larger towns use optical scanners instead of electronic voting) Clinton and Feingold both won but Trump again ran ahead of Johnson by a point. The same pattern shows up in Rock County and Green County (two southern Madison exurbs); they are optical-scanner Democratic counties where Trump nevertheless performed notably better than Ron Johnson on the same ballot.
This pattern — of Trump outperforming more traditional Republican candidates in Democratic-leaning working-class regions while performing worse than them in the GOP’s historical educated suburban heartlands — is repeated county-by-county, precinct-by-precinct, all across the entire Rust Belt region from New York through to Minnesota. It happened regardless of whether the county in question used paper ballots, optical scanners, or electronic-only voting technology. It was an undeniable national trend. It’s also a logical, demonstrated explanation for the election’s outcome in these areas.
Pennsylvania
Trump won Pennsylvania thanks to a massive surge in white working-class voters in every conceivable pocket of the state. While Clinton indeed suffered a drop in votes in Philadelphia city proper, it’s striking to note that even if she had hit the same numbers as President Obama did during his 2012 re-election, she still would have fallen short statewide.
There have been a variety of allegations of nefarious activity, but many of them concern the manipulation of votes in areas with high concentrations of minorities.
But Pennsylvania is an overwhelmingly white state. As in, mayonnaise-on-Wonderbread white. Outside of Reading, Bethlehem, Allentown, a few scattered communities around Pittsburgh, and about half of Philadelphia-proper, the variance in Pennsylvania voters runs along class, not race. The state is whiter than North Carolina, Florida, and Michigan. There simply aren’t enough minority voters in the state to determine its fate — Democrats had performed well enough with white voters to hold the state for six elections.
In every place you look, areas with high concentrations of white voters with no college degree, or some college experience, broke very heavily for Trump, even in pockets of counties that broke toward Clinton (like Delaware, Montgomery, and Allegheny), and these changes directly affected the fate of the vote.
County-level comparisons are insufficient for us at the DecisionDeskHQ, where we have spent years arguing that Republican prospects in Pennsylvania were greater than the conventional wisdom held. If you want to get a real feel for the voters and the various demographics, you need to look at things on a municipal level. Even in areas where Clinton improved on President Obama’s numbers, like the Collar Counties (Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery), Trump’s white working-class voters surged:
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See the interactive chart here.
When you look at the data within the areas of the state, you find things you might expect based on demographics: that Clinton netted more votes out of both Reading (a township in Berks where the Latino population is now larger than the white one) and Pittsburgh (erroneously thought of as a white working-class town, when in fact over a third of its residents have college degrees) than Obama during his re-election.
In municipalities where college degrees abound, Clinton soared; in areas where they did not, Trump did. Clinton’s Achilles heel in Pennsylvania was the simple fact that whites without college degrees vastly outnumber whites with them in the state.
The decline in Democratic numbers in minority-heavy areas coinciding with mini Trump surges wasn’t consistent across the board, either. For example, Penn Hills township is about a third black and saw a dip in Democratic votes — but saw a larger dip in Republican ones. Pittsburgh saw an increase in Democratic votes even when Philadelphia saw a decline.
Trump won because he solved a problem that bedeviled Republicans for almost three decades: He solidified white working-class voters in the North. He carried every conceivable one of them he could find, not just in the counties that blinked red on the map, but in the blue ones, too. Clinton’s campaign failed from weaknesses not just in one section of the state, but everywhere. When you look precinct after precinct, municipality after municipality, you see the same pattern — white working-class voters moving rightward, college-educated voters moving a bit leftward.
Conclusion
This is a case where the simplest explanation is the correct one: Donald Trump won because he did exceptionally (indeed, historically) well with the white working class, a bloc that until 2016 was resistant north of the Mason-Dixon line to voting Republican en masse. These voters are concentrated in the Rust Belt and Pennsylvania, which is why Trump swept every state therein except Minnesota. But the hallmarks of this shift were evident in states well beyond their borders (Coos County, New Hampshire, for example). It is all too human to be uncomfortable with outcomes that we do not predict. It is dangerous, however, to stare at reality in the face and insist that what is real cannot be true, simply because it was unforeseen.
Brandon Finnigan is the founder of the DecisionDeskHQ. Jeffrey Blehar is an elections analyst at the DecisionDeskHQ.
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Clinton did not fail with the popular vote. She got 2 million more popular votes than Trump. In any other civilized country, she would be the winner. We have a seriously screwed up system, the popular vote winner loses.
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RUDY the troll, is here specifically to distract the rest of us from staying focused and being activist protesters. His long boring redundant reports have ZERO merit and he is another extreme RADICAL Religiousist…see google. I wish he would disappear into the blatherers ether and not take up so much space on the blog.
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Trump won by 1% or less in each of those states. I hardly call that a mandate, or a signal of some seismic shift.
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But he won. Unfortunately. From my perspective, Clinton would not have been any better choice.
The main point of the article, however, is that the statements about possible hacking or manipulation are just that: Statements. The actual facts are against any vote/count manipulations.
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Roxana, Good collection of articles on Michigan.
That is DeVos petri dish. Big fail!
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Here is a great email from Kathy Irwin…I cannot get the photo of DeVos in her war garb to work but it is telling…
Kathy writes….
“Vandalizing Demonic DeVos
Trump’s “Betsy” Will Stun You, Maybe to Death
Betsy Devos, the CIA runs errands for her.
The NSA cleans up her Google and social media, just regular folks….like Trump
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America will have it’s first Secretary of Education with her own private army. DeVos, an opponent of public education whose companies have actively withheld funds, thus nearly bankrupting the Ada, Michigan school district over and over is also an avid creationist. DeVos has funded debates at her Alma mater , Calvin College on the following issues:
How dinosaurs and humans interacted on a 6,000 year old planet
How demons created all evidence of human, animal and plant life, including any that existed more than 6,000 years ago to confound man.
Best of all, DeVos supports her husband’s peculiar theology, supplied by Dutch Calvanists, that women are a lower life form and should be limited to a secondary role, somewhere below humans but above that of the ‘negro’.
Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos, isn’t just a longtime hater of public education. She isn’t just a covert political fixer sharing the mantle of “Boss” with gambling boss Sheldon Adelson.
Devos, sister of Blackwater’s Erik Prinz, heiress to the Amway fortune, longtime polluter extraordinaire, from their massive plant in Ada, Michigan, is the most powerful woman in America.
Devos is the power behind GOP obstructionism that has kept Guantanamo open, that has blocked nearly all Obama political nominations and it is Betsy Devos that decides who runs for office, who gets to be a judge, who gets key appointments. She is very “hands on.”
Behind her is a shadow group of former CIA, FBI and police, recruited by Amway Corporation, a powerful private army that morphed into the Blackwater companies when she brought her brother into the family.
Betsy Devos is the primary financier of the “Alt Right” that Trump has now distanced himself from, though Betsy has worked very hard to keep the blood of her own hands.
Blackwater’s Erik Prinz, the rich boy from West Michigan, appointed to the Naval Academy in trade for a GOP payoff by a VT staffer, doesn’t really run Blackwater. Betsy Devos runs Blackwater and Xe and all those other groups. Betsy Devos, wife of Dick Devos of the massive Amway cult, peddling soap, toothpaste and sales scams, has long been the power behind the GOP and the real power behind her brother, Erik Prinz, the empty hat long accused of operating the world’s most despicable mercenary army.
Betsy Devos will now be, if confirmed, Trump’s Secretary of Education.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/11/25/trumps-betsy-will-stun-you-maybe-to-death/
Hope this scares everyone enough that each one of us both sends this to all our lists, and follows NPE admonition to call and to write your Senators immediately to say NOT to confirm DeVos.
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correction…is was sent to me by Kathy, but was written by a veteran reporter on Veterans Today and the link shows the photo and identifies the author.
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I don’t understand how any member of the family that owns scAmway can even be considered for a position of public trust. The DeVoses should be in prison, not the cabinet.
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YES…Amway and Herbalife are money making ponzi schemes similar to charter schools, by using other people’s money and effort to run businesses that profit only the top dogs. Too many former legislators work for them. DeVos brags about buying legislators, wonder how much she donated to Trump?
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Don’t even get me started on Herbalife, which is headquartered in my state and does everything possible to buy off legislators. Is it any wonder that Utah spends by far the least per pupil of any state in the country (just went down from $6600 a year to $6500 a year)?
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/26/michigan-mega-donors-devos-gilbert/80957466/
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I commiserate Threatened…in Calif. two former legislators work/worked for Herbalife. and one is now running for Governor of California and is touted broadly by the LA Times. Painful. We at least do have a superb honest and seasoned candidate, John Chiang, but the Times tends to ignore him.
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To Rudy Schellekens:
You seem to me that you are not who you said you are, like middle management in a big corporate with total 45 working years. You must be few years older than me and lots of business experiences.
You must have “political analysis” background and must own your business.
The truth is that once people are fraud and get away with punishment, they become bolder in committing more serious crime.
In your case, you would not come to America if your spouse has not been the only child whose parents live in America.
However, regardless of the Presidential election’s result in favor of Trump’s candidacy, people must admit that he does not have any qualification in leadership to be President in the first place.
IMHO, you do not need to defend Trump and his administration-to-be; except you are Steve Bannon or Reince Priebus. Back2basic
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Never have I defended trump. What I do defend is balance. You (generic) have an obvious tendency in this list to lambast and degrade everyone you do not like or agree with.
As a group I noticed that what you do is attack. I have not seen one single effort in coming up with a better idea. The present system does dot work. Neither did the system before that. Not the one before that, or there would not have been a need for changes.
More money for teachers? Did not work. More money for assessment? Did not work. More money for gadgets? Ditto.
More teachers? Not working. Starting school at 4? Not enough data for that one.
Better teacher colleges? Following Finnish model? Anathema – because it could not possibly even a part of the problem.
Lambasting the Reformers is cute – for a while. But coming up with a workable solution?
I do have 45 years working experience. I did own my own business. My wife is the middle child. I currently work for a district with about 2700 employees. My political insight is different than yours because a) I grew up under a different system and b) I tend to look at both sides of any issue.
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Excuse me Rudy, but you come to this blog and snipe, make snarky comments, constantly belittle and you are surprised that people would have strong reactions to your screeds. You have such a low opinion of US schools. I think your negative opinions of US schools and US teachers is false and way over the top. Of course there is room for improvement, mostly in the areas with high poverty, violence, crime, gangs, homelessness, transiency, with stressed out parents working at 2 or 3 low wage jobs….such as in Camden or Newark, NJ. You are such a negative person and you seem to hate our public school system. The best private schools throw tons of money at their pupils with tuitions as high as $40K and up. Christie sent his kids to the elite Delbarton school with a very high tuition (almost $40K). There will be no vouchers to cover that expense.
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I would LOVE to have you come and work in my classroom for a few weeks, Rudy. Then start talking about “failing schools.” I doubt you’ve been in a true U.S. public school in your entire life.
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Was educated in the Netherlands. My children were educated in the Netherlands until early high school. THREE members of my family work for school districts, three different districts. One in Chicago.
Between the three of us, we have 40 years in U.S. Public schools since 1997. Two of the three work in special education roles. So, yes, I do think I have a right to speak.
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Rudy,
You certainly have a right to speak but you don’t have a right to post surly comments here. This is my blog, my living room, my classroom. I can delete your comments whenever I find them obnoxious or insulting.
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To Rudy Schellekens:
Definitely, you have the right to express your point of view. But you can show your ignorance and your unappreciative viewpoint from management and business owner who sucks up the powerful and bullies the powerless.
I do not ATTACK people but I truly express my own experience with 45 years+ working in both countries like your case.
Yes, I was owner. I was an immigrant. I started to learn English from ESL to University degree. I have communicated with people in different racial, cultural and educational backgrounds in volunteering jobs and in paid jobs. My acquaintances are profoundly professional from military to civic background.
I am survivor from many dangerous life and death situations.
My expression is deeply from my heartfelt sincerity, but you and James Lake mockingly said that I am drunk (proost) and in a.m.pot.
In short, here are my UNCHANGED words to corrupted business owners and politicians:
1) Blue or Red does not matter. It is “the” utmost important matter is to have humanity and civility in work force, in community, and in American multicultural society.
2) There is NO PERFECT SOLUTION, but the BEST SOLUTION is to be LESS cruelty and MORE civility.
3) Business people are extremely selfish and completely calculated with money minded, whereas people, who truly believe in humanity and civility, are willing to share and care for the basic living with others.
4) Most of all, we cannot bring wealth with us after death, but only carry BAD DEEDS with us forever. There are Heaven and Hell = happiness and misery. We are our own creator who creates our lives to live with love or hatred. Please be patient and forgiving. Back2basic.
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The severest form of taxation without representation is taxing people for the support of religions they do not share. That is the main thing Betsy DeVos is about.
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When will Americans realize we need a tax rebellion, Jon?
I have no interest in subsidizing any churches, any religion, rather than using my taxes for public education.
No one mentions that vouchers can be used for other types of schools. With charters, even Pit Bull and Andre Agassi have schools, With vouchers schools can be funded for the Nazi Party and Richard Spencer could be their CEO.
As an educator (and a member of the Human Relations Commission), I worked against this pernicious idea in the 1990s and we beat them then. We must ignore the trolls and keep fighting against DeVos and Trump once again.
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DeVos is a political donor and activist. That’s what she’s always been in Michigan. She won’t be any different in DC.
She’ll spend all her time bashing public schools and ranting about labor unions.
Expect 100% far Right wing politicking from this Ed Dept. That’s her area of expertise.
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Liberal ed reformers got rolled again, by the way.
DeVos is a far Right ideologue. The echo chamber Ed reform “movement” will now be a far Right movement.
Democrats inn ed reform were duped and bamboozled. They’ll get none of their priorities and the Right will he their whole wish list.
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Ed reformers will all back DeVos gutting and eradicating existing public schools because she’ll buy them off with increased charter funding.
That’ll be the political horse trade-public schools go under the bus in exchange for charter funding.
Trump probably already made the deal with Moskowitz and Rhee.
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I wonder if Broad and Tilson and others of their group will back DeVos?
I tend to think the DFERs who are well educated and do believe in climate change, and that dinosaurs and people did not roam the earth 5000 years ago, may actually denounce her, but on the quiet and directly to Trump.
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addendum…I do agree that Trump probably pledged his support and made side deals with Rhee/Johnson, Eva, and others of the charter school free market brigade.
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Something you may have overlooked toda
“J. Alex Halderman, one of the academics reportedly involved, later wrote on Medium that the deviations were “probably not” the result of a cyberattack but that “the only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence — paper ballots and voting equipment in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.”
Fair and balanced reporting…
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