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Betsy Devos gets the welcome she deserves (Original Post) tomhagen Sep 2017 OP
There Is hope for the world. mjvpi Sep 2017 #1
"Watch the faces of the parents", DeVos counsels her listeners. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #2
Yep not fooled Sep 2017 #3

mjvpi

(1,384 posts)
1. There Is hope for the world.
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 01:20 PM
Sep 2017

As a 60 year old white guy child of the 60s, that video made my heart sing and soar.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. "Watch the faces of the parents", DeVos counsels her listeners.
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 01:23 PM
Sep 2017

What DeVos does not say is that many of these failing schools are failing because of deliberate disinvestment by their communities. And DeVos also does not say that it is the ideology that she shares and heavily supports that leads to the disinvestment that leads to failing schools.

not fooled

(5,791 posts)
3. Yep
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 02:05 PM
Sep 2017

Public school funding has always been tilted against POC by being property-tax linked, which was by design of racists. But even so, the current issues with public schools are directly the result of RW policies of defunding and also aiming to destroy historically Democratic Party-leaning teachers' unions.

And, of course, the deVoids and kochs of this world don't want an educated populace.

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