9-29-17 Betsy DeVos at Harvard School of Education
Today, NPR reported on Betsy DeVos speaking last night in Cambridge at the Harvard School of Education. They focused the interview on the handful of protesters outside the hall and the half dozen silent protesters in the hall. They reported very little on what she actually said to the audience. They reported that she is a “billionaire.” I presume that sets her up as one who is out of touch with the American school system. They did report that she is trying to be a disrupter of the education system in America. She is a strong advocate of parent choice and charter schools. NPR did not editorialize on the fact that the American educational system has been and continues to be a complete failure at improving the equal education opportunities of poor children and minority children who live in urban centers from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, for that matter everywhere in the U.S.
NPR pointed out the criticism of the declining test scores in her home state of Michigan where parent choice and charter schools have been growing in numbers. She pointed out that in Detroit where the public schools cannot meet minimal test requirements, that none of those schools have been closed; while, several charter schools have been closed when they could not meet higher standards of performance.
The “establishment” educators in the U.S. hate Betsy DeVos. These failing, entitled, protected educators want to protect their jobs more than they want to help America’s children. Of course, that is an over generalization, that leaves out the millions of teachers in the country who do care about the education of the kids in their classes and schools. However, the teacher unions continue to support the status quo and the Democratic candidates that have supported their protections from dismissal and their lifelong pensions that are bankrupting cities and states across America.
Thank God that there is an administration willing to disrupt and overturn an education system in this country that is failing our poor and disadvantaged kids…who will continue to be disadvantaged as long as they are not given an equal opportunity to the highest quality education possible. Great education is the passkey out of poverty, crime, unemployment and hopelessness.
#progressivehysteria
