David R. Taylor is a veteran teacher and blogger. He asks the important question of what to expect the consequences to be for public education if Trump is re-elected.
Very likely, it means four more years of Betsy DeVos and her crusade to destroy public education and shower federal money on charter schools, private schools, and religious schools.
Taylor reviews some of her worst actions, such as favoring predatory lenders and favoring for-profit colleges that rip off students. Such as, abandoning the kids who need her most by downplaying civil rights complaints and stripping transgender students of any protections. Such as, trying to starve her own department of funding.
Between the return of DeVos and a voucher-loving majority on the Supreme Court, public schools are in for a rough ride. We can’t change the composition of the Supreme Court (unless there is a genuine effort to expand it and add balance), but we can vote to make sure Betsy goes back to Michigan and her ten yachts.
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Yes to the actions required to send Betsy Wetsy back to Michigan and her ten yachts.
But public education will still be at risk as long as ESSA exists, along with those state plans that the Betsy approved.
In other words, eliminating ESSA cannot really happen without action by Congress and a successful drive to change the state-level officials and legislatures who create absurd accountability schemes.
Too many state plans assert that “accountability” requires rating teachers, schools, and districts by the scores of students on standardized state tests and proxies for these tests. VAM’s (Value-Added-Measures) are still in use along with the equally invalid criteria for SLOs (Student Learning Objectives). Giving an entire school an A-to F grade is another of many absurdities.
“What would 4 more years of Trump mean to” gay rights?
“Clarence Thomas Puts Gay Marriage in the Court’s Cross Hairs” (Daily Beast)
Discrimination against gay people has no more to do with religion than the Biel, Espinosa or Little Sisters of the Poor SCOTUS decisions. While evangelicals have no justices on the Court, their will is imposed by others who have no religious commitment themselves.
Four more years of Trump!!!?! Bad for education, bad for everything. It will be great for the xenophobes, racists, chauvinists, faux-religionists, jingoists, neo-Nazis, pro gun militias and bible thumping flag wavers.
Stephen “Goebbels” Miller has tested positive for Covid-19, in case you were wondering whether the disease can pass from humans to Nazi Orc creatures.
Hey, Stevie, stay positive!
Karma.
I’m generally not much for property damage, but if nobody’s using her stupid yachts, could somebody go under the keel and drill just a couple of inch-wide holes in the bottom and we’ll see what happens (or how long it’ll take for someone to figure out something’s wrong?
I’m an educator at heart and she’s bleeding us all dry, a woman who knows nothing and wants to know nothing about how to be a helpful person. A slow bleed on her precious boats is nothing in comparison.
Mike Dense is heading up the Trump maladministration’s nonresponse to the Covid-19 pandemic. In keeping with the heedlessness, the recklessness, the amorality, the outright stupidity of that nonresponse, he is fighting having plexiglass barriers between him and Harris at the debate tonight. Why? Who knows. A barrier adds additional protection for the two candidates and has zero downsides. But in keeping with his position as Trump Mini-Me, Mikey is playing the Covid-proof tough guy. How did that work out for IQ45, Kookyanne CONway, Crisco Christy, Miss Communications Kayleigh Mc-Inanity, and Stephie “Goebbels” Miller, Mikey?
,la by KO, 30 seconds
Not since the Pillsbury Doughboy v. Wonder Woman has there been such a rumble!
This just in: Heavenly appeals court rejects Pense’s bid to be raptured before debate with Kamala Harris
Yikes! Pence. But, to my credit, it’s easy to get Pence and Dense confused.
Pence partisans were not deterred. “Look,” said his chief strategist, “Mike is a VERY principled guy. He’s not going to be thrown off his laser focus and most profoundly held values. His strategy is simple: lie through the whole thing.”