Meet Betsy DeVos, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education. She funds an institute that wants to bring back child labor and get rid of public education.
Betsy DeVos is from my area (West Michigan) and let me tell you: she comes from not one, but two of the most corrupt, entitled, extreme conservative families in the area.
Something else, that I feel like people really should be aware of is that our state government (led, of course, by Rick Snyder of the ongoing Flint Water Crisis) just stated that literacy is not a right.
Yeah. Literacy is not a right.
What happened is that some students in Detroit tried to sue the state because they have been denied access to literacy (through disinvestment and indifference to Detroit’s public schools). And the official response is that state legislation only requires that there be a system of free public schools. So yeah, there are schools. Schools without money or resources. But they’re there, and literacy is not a right (apparently).
Meanwhile, Betsy DeVos is a huge supporter of charter schools. Which means that she’s strongly anti-public school. She never went to public school, nor did any of her children.
Also: the DeVos family contributed over $9 million to the Tr*mp campaign.
How is this the real world
How are we living in a world where wretched worthless gutter trash like this vile piece of TRASH are allowed to hold ANY form of position in government
She literally thinks child slave labour is an amazing idea
That’s not a thing a normal person thinks, that’s the viewpoint of a villain in a movie where the hero is a dog
“THAT’S THE VIEWPOINT OF A VILLAIN IN A MOVIE WHERE THE HERO IS A DOG”
This is a phrase I’m going to come back to a lot in 2017.
I wonder what it’s like to literally be the villain in a children’s movie?
Fellow West Michigander here to state that all of the above is 110% true. The DeVos family has brought our public school system to hell in a handbasket and has way too much control in our state government as it is. Betsy has literally no qualifications to be the Secretary of Education. Luckily our senators in DC already know how toxic this family is and are planning on rejecting her nomination but non-Michiganders need to CALL their senators and tell them to reject her.
(Also to the Michigan gang: the gubernatorial election is coming up next year and you need to support homegirl Gretchen Whitmer to fix all the shit that the Snyder administration spewed out on us).
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