Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, visited Jefferson Middle School in D.C. At first, she was blocked by protestors, but she eventually slipped into a side door. The staff tried to show her what a public school looks like, since she has probably never been in a public school before.
Despite the graciousness of the staff, DeVos insulted them after she left. She has never been a teacher, yet she complained about what she saw. She said the teachers were in a “receive” mode, waiting to be told what to do.
Emma Brown of the Washington Post writes:
“Newly minted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had a hard time getting inside the District’s Jefferson Middle School Academy last week when protesters briefly blocked her from entering. But at the end of her visit — her first to a public school since taking office — she stood on Jefferson’s front steps and pronounced it “awesome.”
“A few days later, she seemed less enamored. The teachers at Jefferson were sincere, genuine and dedicated, she said, they seemed to be in “receive mode.”
“They’re waiting to be told what they have to do, and that’s not going to bring success to an individual child,” DeVos told a columnist for the conservative online publication Townhall. “You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.”
After hearing her remarks, the staff was justifiably outraged.
Jefferson educators found her comments about their work hard to take: On Friday evening, the school responded to DeVos via its Twitter account, taking exception to the education secretary’s characterization of Jefferson teachers. “We’re about to take her to school,” the first of 11 rapid-fire tweets said.
“ The tweetstorm singled out teachers like Jessica Harris, who built Jefferson’s band program “from the ground up,” and Ashley Shepherd and Britany Locher, who not only teach students ranging from a first- to eighth-grade reading level, but also “maintain a positive classroom environment focused on rigorous content, humor, and love. They aren’t waiting to be told what to do.”
“JA teachers are not in a ‘receive mode,’” the tweets concluded. “Unless you mean we ‘receive’ students at a 2nd grade level and move them to an 8th grade level.”
Betsy DeVos has only contempt for public schools. The very best teachers, in her narrow mind, teach in religious schools and charters.
Please, Secretary DeVos, teach a class and show us how it is done. Teach all day. Just one day.
She can’t speak without betraying her hostility to our nation’s democratically governed public schools and her ignorance about them.
If you welcome her to your school, she will ridicule you too.
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I disagree with Duncan and Weingarten that DeVos should be welcome in our schools.
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I agree with you, Abigail. Why should they welcome her when she is just going to wind up denigrating them?
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You could just put a period after Weingarten, Abigail. ITA.
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psmirn,
I stand corrected.
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“The Battle for Troy”
“Wooden horses”
Say my sources
“Ought to stay outside
“Horsey friends
Bring Trojan ends
If history is guide
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I thought, at first, when I heard “they were in receive mode,” that she meant the teachers were ready to receive or welcome her–DeVos–to their school. I thought, in the back of my head, “How nice. She’s lucky they didn’t stone her instead–a testimony to their commitment to civility considering what’s gone before.”
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One of the most-endearing things about the uber-rich, particularly when they’re also intentionally uber-ignorant (because who needs to be be smart when you’re already remarkably wealthy), is they don’t realize when they’re insulting “the little people.” It’s so cute!
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If she says anything nice about public schools, that will make her job to replace them with vouchers harder. No matter what she sees, she can’t say anything that will get in the way of her agenda.
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There you go. Just like all the failing schools in neighborhoods of color that need to be rescued by a charter. New Orleans can you take us to school. I’m sure they will get more money for being a model to us all.
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The charter experiment in New Orleans was a failure.
http://www.theneworleanstribune.com/main/new-orleans-corporate-education-reform-101/
http://hechingerreport.org/why-new-orleans-officials-closed-a-struggling-charter-school-while-keeping-a-failing-one-open/
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The teachers are just “waiting to be told what to do”?
Really, Betsy? Really??? The public school teachers would love to be given more freedom to teach as they have been educated to do and as they know how to do, but there are so many mandates, tests, and teaching to the test now required in so many public schools, they no longer have that choice.
And then there are the charter and private school teachers. Many of them do not even have degrees in education and have received only minimal training. In many charter schools, they are told what to do, how to do it, and they have to follow a script. In many of the private parochial schools, you better believe that they have to hew to the religious line of the sect that is running that school- if they don’t they are out of there.
So, Betsy, how is this not being “told what to do” in those charters and private schools?
Get a clue, Betsy.
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The children are props, the teachers are nuisances.
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Perhaps the secretary, the “teacher” who was never a teacher…is delighted to share her concept of receivership…
Buy a politician, or two…or three…enough so that each one officially becomes a “bought” legislator and/or executive…then sit back and be prepared to “receive”.
Betsy DeVos…it should be expected and anticipated…should be able to write a book about what it means to receive…she has been doing it all her life.
Using her cash to both “buy and sell”…buying politicians and selling her ideas.
It would be very nice to see Ms DeVos receive something which she is unaccustomed to…
…a federal issued prisoner unifor…fingerprints taken, and kept in a nationwide database as a convicted felon, and a prison cell for her crimes against our nation.
Ms DeVos has an agenda to tie religion and government together…it would be very interesting if those that she claims to worship were here to see her buying politicians to spread her policy.
The American people should rise and dump her business countertop, and she should request forgiveness from those she claims to serve.
Shame on Ms DeVos…reshaping education in her own image.
Go back to your home madame secretary with no experience…
…and leave our kids alone!
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Steve B Well-said. But don’t expect Betsy or her bought-and-paid-for politicians to keep their means well-connected to their ends. ANYTHING goes as means where “doing God’s work”as ends is concerned, including dumping their own integrity.
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And yet, I know of at least one IFT Local itching to invite Betsy to come to their schools. True gluttons for punishment, because 8 years of Obama-Duncan Just.Wasn’t.Enough.
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I’m sure those teachers had quite a bit to say to DeVos but chose to be polite to the least qualified candidate ever to hold the title of Secretart of Education. In fact, I’m sure they wanted to explain to her about basic terms she seems to struggle with, like “proficiency” and “growth,” but felt that perhaps they wouldn’t further embarrass her, and would model respectful behavior — unlike DeVos herself who chose to insult these hard working professionals.
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DeVos will make enemies quickly if she starts bashing public education after her first “field trip.” It is ironic that DeVos sees public education as teacher directed. What could be more authoritarian than no excuses charters where some students wet their pants because they are afraid to ask to go to the bathroom. What could be more teacher directed than a dummy script that staff members read to students? The students then respond to the robotic prompts. Computer instruction is based on stimulus-response, reductionist ideology. There is nothing innovative or even remotely interesting in most of it. A good, trained public teacher is resourceful and creative in preparing engaging content that activates various learning styles. I have seen it and done it and so have many readers of this blog.
DeVos should do her homework before she opens her mouth. She should try reading some authentic research instead of the propaganda from the billionaire bubble.
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She should try spending some time in a public school classroom, and not just as an observer- let her get in there and actually work with the kids.
I would have loved to have her come to one of the special education classrooms I used to teach in. After a day, maybe half a day, she would have run screaming out of there.
(OTOH, she didn’t know that IDEA was a federal law, thinks that should be left to the states, and probably, in her heart of hearts- assuming she has a heart- thinks that these kids are not “worth” teaching.)
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I would love to see her with some of the troubled, uneducated rural Haitian students I taught as an ESL teacher. When I taught high school, I had tenth graders that could barely write their names and were illiterate in their first language.
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Yes, rt, perhaps it might be a revelation to her. Or with some of my kiddos- aggressive, acting out, self-abusive, some non-verbal, some even barely toilet trained.
OTOH, she might well think that “Okay, these kids can just be warehoused in the few remaining under-funded public schools.”
{{Sigh}}
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That ‘s probably the population she feels should be in public schools, students rejected by charters and vouchers. These students cost more money to educate, but there will be too little money left by the time the corporate raiders are through.
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Yes, just warehouse these kids. The special needs kids, the ELL’s, the kids with lots of behavior problems.
They’re not easy to teach, need well-trained teachers and extra resources, so they’re too expensive, and very, very few charter schools or private schools are prepared to deal with them, or offer them what they need.
Just shove them aside.
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retired teacher: What you say is so true.
However, ALSO, from the view of the child, and more so in earlier than later age groups, the teacher as a personal and consciously present human being relating to and watching them AS another human being who is their teacher, with a name, is the unspoken and often overlooked aspect of education, again, especially for children. Young children respond to the safety and love and attractiveness of persons first. If that’s not there, learning becomes more and more difficult for them.
We all know that children ARE extremely interested in computers; but if their personal lives are distorted or they are un-cared for, or if their teacher is systematically negative (not just having a bad day), then their learning will take the hit. And they are tuned-in–they know when they are being put-off or neglected. This personal element of education, however, is a huge aspect of learning that is systematically overlooked.
And about education in a democracy–we cannot start with democracy in the classroom. Rather, it takes a lot of GOOD and well-managed authoritative-based education to learn to live in one–a democracy, that is.
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That has been my experience working with poor students from around the world. They need to connect with a human that is caring and supportive. When they feel safe in the community the classroom builds, the teacher can work magic.
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retired teacher: Every time I’ve heard Bill Gates talk about education and his “box” thinking, I think of this one huge oversight. It’s not only about learning x, but in the personal conditioning for that learning. Even education departments (in my experience) overlook the fact that teachers have personalities and character, attitudes, an intellectual, moral and ethical background that is ALWAYS present in the classroom and that is developed informally long before they get to graduate school. We learn those things in the culture we live in–as our children/students do. And we all do our teaching with those foundations already in place and manifest every minute in the classroom. They are always present and only become conscious when something goes wrong.
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You’re right. In my experience strong relationships build strong schools. Students are interested in computers, and they are useful tools. However, most cyber instruction fails when human interaction is absent, and computers supplant teachers. Gates has much to gain from selling computer assisted instruction, and states see it as a way to cut costs. However, it is a fallacy that computers can do it all. From what I have read in the research, CAI seems only to work on older, motivated, middle class students. My son, who recently finished college, did well with on-line courses, but it said the courses were boring, and he’d rather have a “real” instructor.
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Catherine Blanche King: the first line of your 2-18-17, 3:44 PM comment caught my attention—
[start] Every time I’ve heard Bill Gates talk about education and his “box” thinking, I think of this one huge oversight. [end]
When I googled “Bill Gates” and “education” and “box” and a couple of other terms, I realized that perhaps “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” [Paul Newman in the 1967 movie HUD].
Not YOUR failure to clearly communicate but HIS.
He may claim—and those interviewing/promoting him may claim—that he is urging people to “think outside the box” but he asserts in varied terms that computerized boxes (angular or with rounded corners, stationary or mobile) are the absolutely critical components of education.
Not people like students, teachers and parents. Boxes of myriad sizes, shapes, colors and price tags. So he is not only not thinking OUTSIDE the box, he is not thinking INSIDE the box either. He’s thinking BOX. With the proviso, natcherly, that it is running the latest version of Microsoft software…
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And to keep up to date with the latest disruptively creative thinking, he means that literally and not just symbolically.
Which is why, of course, his old school and that of his children, Lakeside School, has the following athletic facilities:
[start] Lakeside School is home to some of the finest high school athletics facilities in the Puget Sound region. Teams have access to two artificial turf fields lined for multi-sport use, a natural-grass soccer pitch, an all-weather track, a shellhouse for all crew teams, a Middle School multi-sport gymnasium, and The Paul G. Allen Athletics Center, headquarters for the Upper School athletics staff, coaches, and physical education department. [end]
Link: https://www.lakesideschool.org/athletics/facilities
And then there’s the school’s similarly robust support of drama, music and the visual arts.
Oops! 🙄
I guess that when it comes to THEIR OWN CHILDREN a box like that of “a shellhouse for all crew teams” is necessary while for OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN frivolities like PE and the dramatic/performing/visual arts—in boxes or out—need to be sacrificed to serve those boxes that generate the numbers off of which VAM feeds.
So, not walking his own talk. With all apologies I mangle, er, riff off the last part of a famous poem:
I Bill Gates shall be telling more interviewers boxes of lies
Every and any where ages and ages hence:
Selfless honesty and self-serving hypocrisy diverged in my life, and I—
I served the one that made the most $tudent $ucce$$,
And that has made all the difference.
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KrazyTA Yes, yes, yes–theirs, but not others’. But more: I think most of us, including Gates and those who have such power in our culture, FORGET their own teacher-experience, and what opened the doors to their own creativity through comprehensive teacher-guidance.
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Catherine Blanche King: it is obvious that you have a good heart because you don’t assume the worst in others. *Your comment of 2-18-17, 8:47 PM.
I provide a link below for a speech Bill Gates gave to his alma mater, Lakeside School, 9-23-2005. It’s authoritative [literally & symbolically] because it is on the Gates Foundation website; has been there for a while.
Note in his heartfelt paean he summarizes his experiences there as the three R’s: Rigor, Relevance, Relationships, commenting immediately after listing them: “When I first heard theories of school reform based on these principles, they made intuitive sense to me. They are what make Lakeside a phenomenal school.”
I inject my own opinion here but I think he stack ranked them [e.g., as he does re management practices]. Add in a common rhetorical device: build up from the important to the more important to the most important.
So just what does he briefly define the third as? “The third R is Relationships – making sure kids have a number of adults who know them, look out for them, and push them to achieve.”
After fleshing out the first two, he prepares his audience for the third R aka oratorical knockout punch by beginning thusly: “Finally, I had great relationships with my teachers here at Lakeside” immediately followed by “Classes were small. You got to know the teachers. They got to know you. And the relationships that come from that really make a difference. If you like and respect your teacher, you”re going to work harder.”
Link: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/media-center/speeches/2005/09/bill-gates-lakeside-school
Bill Gates. When it comes to corporate education reform he and his peers/enablers/enforcers don’t just use alternative facts—they inflict upon themselves (and they hope on us) alternative memories.
Yet even if confronted with the yawning chasm between what he and they mandate for THEIR OWN CHILDREN and what they impose on OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, and the contradictions between what they say on certain occasions to select audiences and what they purvey in public, they perform mental & moral gymnastics that surpass Olympic medal performances: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” [George Orwell, 1984]
After all, above all else they want to be in their happy place where cognitive dissonance only exists for those that are logical, consistent and factually correct aka everyone that is for a “better education for all.”
Or so I see it.
Thank you for your comments.
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KrazyTA: Here’s a funny in the light of what you said: I hold what I said AND what you said too. Especially this: “. . . they perform mental & moral gymnastics that surpass Olympic medal performances: ‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’ [George Orwell, 1984]”u th (Don’t we love Orwell.)
Or, as a philosopher I read says: “The human mind is a chameleon.”
But it’s not as bad as you think in my own mind (at least I can hope). That is, the mental gymnastics you speak of are that, as I said, my guess is that Gates “forgets” his teachers and the significance of their influence on him when developing his programatics for others. and our children. On the other hand, he can (as you quote) sing the praises of his teachers and the significance of their influence on him. And THAT’S what Orwell is talking about–at least as I understand it.
And I think more have “good hearts” than want to admit to it?
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If this keeps up, maybe she will insult her way out of the appointment like Cathie Black who was Chancellor in NYC all of three months maybe four. I’m sure she can give her some advice.
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DeVos is working on building her own “wall” when she should be trying to build bridges.
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I think that teachers are indeed “waiting to receive”.
We are awaiting the next round of foolish, wasteful, destructive and corrupt policies from DC.
What new BS hoops must we jump through while still trying to teach kids, albeit with fewer resources?
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If teachers are waiting to receive, look no further than present test and punish policy for the reason.
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Agreed.
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Disappointing if not unexpected. I hope, if nothing else, this position teaches her some humility about the awesome challenge we all face in helping all students learn.
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Do not expect DeVos to learn humility. Too late for that. Arrogance is part of her mindset.
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Makes her perfect for the Trump cabinet.
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Spot on, Diane. She’s pathetic. I can’t write more or I’ll puke.
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She may have been ineptly trying to say that teachers need to be allowed to have more of a voice and vision, contrary to the prevailing micromanagement and scripting exercises in and out of the classroom.
But she’s too dumb and/or ignorant to articulate that.
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Agree- but she managed to make it personal, insulting, and patronizing. What a bull in a china shop.
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What a grizzly bear in a Scientology auditing session.
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Look at the positive side, she now has one hour of experience out of the 10,000 needed to have the expertise to do the job.
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yes! Suggestion for her first French class of the long long road to Certification: va te faire foudre.
(Learned that one in a top flight university. Or was it my Junior Year Abroad. But HOW did they somehow admit me given 12 years of Integrated Public School!? Oh the dead end I suffered!)
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LOL! Now, now, SJ. (Also, too, it’s “foutre.”)
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At the current rate of 1 hour of experience gained per week, she will be qualified after only 192 years.
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DeVos is a political operative. She’s been a political operative in Michigan for 30 years.
She was given the job as political patronage for her work turning Michigan red.
Ed reform supposedly likes “hard truths”. That’s the truth. She’s a part of a Republican political machine in Michigan and that’s the one and only reason she’s “qualified”.
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Do we still have some duty to host these folks in our schools?
What value do they add? How does a visit benefit my local schools or the students there?
This is supposedly about “the children”. How did the children in that DC school benefit from the visit? I know how DeVos benefited. Not seeing any value add here.
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This clearly think tank-speak that DeVos rattled off. She would have used this phrasing no matter what she thinks she saw in a public school. In my opinion, she will spin this “receive mode” sllliness into some notion about “how teachers will benefit from local control”.
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Receive mode? Yes, I, as a fourth-grade teacher, am in “receive mode.” I had to receive at least 4 different sets of standards in the last 10 years. I had to receive a pacing guide to teach those standards meant for a school year to be mostly completed in 3 quarters so my students could pass the state test I had to receive. I had to receive stipends based on test scores of students I don’t even teach rather than raises. I had to receive a comprehensive evaluation system with requirements of spending hours collecting evidence I’m a highly effective teacher even though I have had glowing evaluations for 38 years. I have had to receive the pleasure of giving 3 different assessments in the next 3 weeks. Time taken away from actual teaching. I have had to receive all these restrictions that have taken away the autonomy in my classroom. I have had to receive the lack of trust to give students what they actually need instead of throwing standards at them and moving on whether they get it or not.
What do I want to receive? TRUST
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Exactly what I was talking about!
Let DeVos go back to receiving the word of her money god and consulting with our embarrassment, “That’s the information I was given” Trump.
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There’s no reason any school should interrupt its day so DeVos can have a photo op.
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Weingarten has volunteered to show DeVos around. I have no further comment.
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Randi is evil. We should block her entering ALL public schools.
Your NOT getting a seat at the table you Vichy slime.
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What chutzpah to think her little staged meet and greet qualified her to speak on the instructional skill of those teachers.
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Give Betsy enough rope, and she just may hang herself.
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That’s the way I look at it!
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Seems like a simple explanation is in order. DeVos gave complimentary responses to the public about the school, but turned around and gave her base the “red meat” they want.
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What a douche Betsy is.
I am glad, Diane doesn’t think anymore, DeuxVous should be allowed to visit schools.
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Betsy reminds me of Marie Antoinette. Like Betsy, Marie, the Queen of France, was extremely rich , yet she like to pretend that she was a commoner, one of the simple folk. She had a pretend rustic village where she and her rich friends liked to pretend they were milkmaids. Of course, Marie and her friends were clueless about what it was really like to be commoners. Betsy gives off an air of noblesse oblige. Let her go back to her palace. The same can be said of King Donald.
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Exactly. Her comment was perfectly in tune with “Let them eat cake”.
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To my mind, Betsy gives off an air of noblesse without the oblige. Any “oblige” is on the part of the little people. If we’re comparing her to French phrases about the nobility, it’s more like she feels entitled to a droit d’seigneur as applied to education rather than sexual favors.
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Marie Antoinette was quite classy—at least according to the Coppola film. Our heroine is more douchy than classy, isn’t she?
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Sooxie516,
I don’t disagree with everything you are saying.
Let’s also add that Marie Antoinette also faced a fate in which she, her husband, and her very own infant, among so many other relatives and friends of theirs, had their HEADS CHOPPED OFF.
Now you were saying about Betsy DeVos . . . . . ?
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As we are preoccupied with the clown act in the circus, another hater our Orange Agent nominated just got confirmed to head the EPA
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So sad! She has no clue! I hope she gets one soon!
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I don’t think it serves any good purpose to let DeVos in any public school. She simply wants to dismantle the system and the dept at the federal level. Who does she think she is kidding? She is thoroughly steeped really, really dumb self-serving ideology and is in fact deep down just another scam artist, like Trump.
Kick them out. Vet their souls. Deport them from our reality.
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DeVos should NOT be allowed into the schools. As I’ve stated before, she wants to visit them to size up the real estate she wants to make available for her precious charters.
If she had ANY smarts, she would have kept her mouth shut. But, no, she insulted all teachers & public schools from the get-go. Lock the doors & throw away the keys!
And let’s all take some comfort that the miserable D.o.Ed. will be shut down in 2018 &–as Diane has said–she will lose the only job she’s ever had.
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I also strongly recommend reading two blog posts on Fred Klonsky’s Blog (because I can’t do them justice w/just a comment,here). “The Man Who Said No to DeVos”-posted February 13th, & “Is Anything the Way it Appears?”-posted February 15th.
Also–F.Y.I.–if you live in the Chicagoland area, one of our PBS (while we can still watch PBS) stations is WYCC–Channel 20 on Comcast. They will be rebroadcasting their 2/16 show, “In the Loop,” tonight, Sunday, 2/19, at 6:30 PM CT. The half-hour is devoted to the fate of the 50 public schools (particularly the empty buildings & properties) closed by Mayor Emanuel. The show is also available online, but I don’t think it will run until after the second airing tonight (I’ve been trying to watch it).
Oh, & I meant to comment on a comment Duane made on an earlier post (something about his wondering just what it is that the 4,000 employees in the D.o.Ed. actually do), & Diane answering something along the order of mostly clerical jobs.
Which is just what I’d always suspected–what a waste of money–OUR tax dollars, which should, of course, be going directly to the schools.
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Retired, the jobs at ED are not a waste of money. Most people are processing grants and making sure that recipients are qualified and using the money appropriately.
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Sorry to make such a generalization.
But, maybe, some of them? Or many of them? Or maybe the “qualified” recipients are not so qualified, & the money is not, in fact, being used “appropriately?” Patronage jobs? Money parceled out to
good little states/programs, pushing “standardized” testing, Gates’ agenda, etc.?
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I can only speak of one example, but years ago, when the Department of Education itself was still sort of new (having previously been within HEW), a school I taught in received a grant (a small one) for developing a program to teach safety to developmentally disabled adolescents and young adults (we taught ages 14-21). It involved purchasing bus and other public transportation tickets for them and teaching them to ride public transportation. And also teaching them to cross streets safely, get to the bus or train stop safely, read certain signs, and so on. We also bought some mock-up street and traffic signs so they could practice at school, before we took them “out on the road.” (And yes, even at their age, we also taught them to be careful around strangers, because this is a very vulnerable population.)
I know about this grant, because I wrote it, and without meaning to sound conceited, yes, I was more than qualified, and the money was used appropriately.
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Maybe they should be VAMmed.
Raj Chetty should get right on it! Earn his own keep.
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It is obvious that De Vos ‘ agenda is privatization. So no public school, despite the innovative programs, constraints of budget or dedication of teachers will be seen as a valuable part of our education system because it doesn’t fit her agenda. Like in NJ with Gov. Christie, public schools are the devil. Hail to those public school teachers who spend their lives improving the lives of their students especially those who teach in the inner city. De Vos should teach one full day in an inner city middle school classroom. We would all like to see what her idea of a teacher’s job looks like.
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Who on earth is this woman to make any comments about about education!!?
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And, hey, folks…let’s all calm down. Randi to the rescue! Read Fred Klonsky’s Blog–today’s post–“Resistance Sunday.”
I have a new chant (w/apologies to Some DAM):
-We are not subservient fools,
We don’t want you in our schools!
Go-o-o-o-o (as in “go away”), Betsy!
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The only person Randi is going to rescue is herself.
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