Imagine Betsy DeVos giving the morning announcements. It might sound like this:
It starts like this:
Good morning, students of the Goldman Sachs Holy Trinity Lehman LearningFirst Inc. Elementary School! I am thrilled to be delivering your morning announcements today, which I am currently delivering outside using a megaphone because protesters have blocked me from entering your building.
Before we begin the announcements, I want to reassure all staff still worried about my appointment that I am extremely knowledgeable about schools and the people who walk around inside of them and do things in them. Take, as evidence, my recent tweet about pencils. Pencils are very school-y! They were the first thing that came to mind when I thought about school recently. (They still do pencils in school, right? Are they still doing pencils in school?…)
The Trump Administration has a lot of exciting ideas for education in this country: HeadStart for Fetuses, extending the school week into Sunday, canceling summer, replacing school libraries with Ivanka Trump apparel boutiques… it’s high time for parents — not the government — to decide what’s best for children, and I, as an outsider, can make that happen as only an outsider could. I am in fact still outside, right now.
Now, your morning announcements! Special events going on this week: There will be a silent auction after school on Friday organized by the PTA. Proceeds from the auction will go towards repairs for the wheelchair ramp by the main cafeteria entrance.
Hoo boy, wheelchairs. You know, I once encountered a disabled woman when I parked in the only handicapped space outside of the Grand Rapids Country Club, and she drove away shaking her fist at me. I’m sure she faced many challenges in her life, such as me parking in her handicapped parking space because I knew I could pay the fine. Let me give you my sincerest guarantee that as Secretary of Education, I will only very rarely park in the handicapped parking spaces of elementary schoolchildren who have disabilities. (They drive, right? When do they start driving?…)
Read on.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Why not try some positive comments about anything that might help educating our children instead of wasting time on such inane writing.
Sounds like your writing might be stream of consciousness
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Tom,
It upsets me when readers don’t like what I post.
Here’s some advice. Don’t read what I post.
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Diane, don’t get upset. Ignore him.
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Zorba,
I am not upset when people write and say they don’t like something I wrote. Simple solution: don’t read it.
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Yes. He can ignore anything that doesn’t fit his own prejudices. Or as I said to him, start his own blog.
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Don’t like it? Don’t read it then. Go elsewhere and start your own blog.
Personally, I thought this was funny.
Sometimes, we have to laugh so that we don’t cry.
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My favorite is when ed reform state legislators visit public schools. They drop all the “government schools” and “failing public schools” rhetoric and tell us we’re the backbone of democracy.
Then they get back in their cars, drive 3 south and strut around crowing about “government monopolies” and how much they hate labor unions.
They actually have to get elected in these places where 99% of the kids go to public schools. They can’t use the ed reform rhetoric that plays so well nationally when they’re campaigning in our gym.
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Diane,Trump said yesterday that private schools teach children to “love our country and
and our values”
I know none of these people attended a public school or sent their children to one, but
they really think public school parents and children “love” their country less?
Wow. What a nasty thing to say.
That’s besides how ridiculous it is that Donald Trump is lecturing ANYONE on “values”
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I want no part of what Trump considers “values.” Not my values.
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The “Our” is as much from Steve Bannon as Trump. it is the cultural part of the economic nationalism bit. America First, and American values are those I proclaim…because I am the President.
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“Today, President Trump unveiled his FY2018 budget, which includes a $168 million increase for charter schools. National Alliance President and CEO Nina Rees released the following statement in response to the president’s announcement:
“Today, President Trump demonstrated that he is a strong supporter of charter public schools. The charter school movement is grateful for the president’s support, and we applaud his commitment to providing critically needed funding for the Charter Schools Program (CSP). This funding will allow more high-quality charter schools to open, expand, and replicate – and will help finance facilities for charter schools – so that more students have access to the great education they deserve.
Big wins in DC for charter and private schools.
Meanwhile NOT ONE of our elected or appointed public employees in DC have offered anything to the schools 90% of kids attend. I get that public schools are unfashionable but this is ridiculous. They’ve simply disappeared 90% of schools. It’s like they don’t exist.
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I suppose Democrats for Education Reform will have to change their name to Friends of Betsy zdeVos
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Diane, PRICELSS.
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