And my excitement and interest in a subject has no bearing on the amount of excitement and interest I have in other subjects when I am talking about those other subjects.
So when you said “Last word on the subject” you didn’t really mean that?
Just wasting my time trying to give a polite explanation.
Sorry about that.
At least we agree then that* something* needs to be done to fix the American education system, if not on just what that something is.
What was polite about it? Or an explanation? It struck me as rude and pointless.
Hey, does anyone know whether DeVos is a creationist?
Maybe abject ignorance about the system, combined with Creationism and an infusion of Christianity is just what this country needs! After all, it doesn’t really matter what a particular change is, as long as it is change, correct?
I think I’ll pour some sugar in my gas tank, because I’m not getting the mileage I used to get.
Another way of describing “teacher’s union” is “professionals who know what the hell they’re talking about with regards to education.”
Because in the event of Cylon attack, she could end up being the president.
Devos is spectacularly stupid and unqualified for this position, but I really think that the Democratic outrage against her should have been redirected to thwarting the nominations of Tom Price (HHS) and Neil Gorsuch (SCOTUS). IMO anyway.
I thought that was* her* job.
Or fighting for bad teachers to keep their jobs. They are advocates for teachers, not the kids.
It’s OK, because …
We’re all Cylons anyways
The fact that you say this shows that you do not know how teacher unions work. It’s not that was want teachers to keep there jobs, but rather that to remove a teacher that administrators have to follow the law or the contract. We feel that if we let admin/districts gets away with violating the law or CBA then no teacher is safe.
See, one of the things about that so-called laboratory of democracy? You have to admit when things don’t work. Betsy DeVos pushed hard for vouchers and “school choice” in her home state of Michigan. Her method failed miserably, largely as a result of her dogmatic beliefs about government intervention - the charter schools had little to no oversight, so what happened was exactly what you would expect to happen when you add a profit motivation to a system already strapped for cash, then did absolutely nothing to prevent abuses. There were a lot of abuses. In fact, voucher programs in Louisiana led to worse results. The NEA marks them as a failure across the board, and backs it up with hard data. For rural students, vouchers do exactly fuck-all to improve school choice due to sheer geography, and for urban students, there’s little evidence that they actually improve anything.
Here, you run into the same problem you’ll find with Trump, or perhaps Pol Pot: pretty much every source either gives a damn about the truth and opposes her as a result, or is probably published on Breitbart. The NYTimes article above is a good start. So is this Vox article. It’s like if Michael Brown (head of FEMA during hurricane Katrina) also was of the opinion that the department he was utterly unqualified to lead shouldn’t exist, and also should be a lot more religious.
Okay. So why do your guys insist that the correct way to move forward involves school vouchers, something which was tried in the “laboratories of democracy” and failed miserably most of the times it was tried?
Young earth, with a serious anti-gay bend as well. Added bonus:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/betsy-devos-education-trump-religion-232150
The billionaire philanthropist whom Donald Trump has tapped to lead the Education Department once compared her work in education reform to a biblical battleground where she wants to “advance God’s Kingdom.”
I suppose it’s just a coincidence that school voucher programs open up a far greater audience to private religious schools.
Aw, crud! A “Young Earther”, eh? I was afraid of that. This ain’t no stinkin’ good at all… I just can’t believe that people this stupid are in power!
Sessions is confirmed as AG, vote was 52-47, with Manchin siding with the Republicans
With all these futile attempts to block the appointments, all Democrats are managing is projecting weakness.