Reverse Robin Hood

And in each of those nine states, it has proven to be an abject failure. This is not about "education," nor "freedom." This is merely a scam to ciphon public money into private schools. https://t.co/9yIqq6fNjS

— Jesse Huseth (@JesseForTN97) December 1, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Reverse Robin Hood once again for the GOP

The GOP wants to destroy public education which created an educated workforce that helps our economy flourish.

Dismantle the Dept of Education. Give the money to parents to offset expensive private education with public moneys.

Make no mistake, that’s the goal.#Fresh#wtpBLUE pic.twitter.com/kRdtBRMgxi

— Jennifer Bennon (@jennobenno) August 24, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Rich white privilege, verse one

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, bought and paid for

The woman who bought her Cabinet position by making donations to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, earlier this week said that she is rejecting school reopening plans which do not send our children back to school full-time in the classroom.  This is somewhat rich, because DeVos has absolutely zero power to do this--as we are not one of those smart countries which has a national education program and instead leaves everything to local officials, each and every school district can tell DeVos to blow it our her ass.

Unfortunately, what DeVos can do is control the funding, and she is threatening to withhold money from schools which don't bend to her wants.  While most folks agree that it is in our children's best interests to get them back to school, I think it's important to note that most of us think this should be done safely with plans in place for the coronavirus, but DeVos wants this done simply because her boss, Putin puppet Donald Trump, thinks it will help the economy and therefore his chances for re-election.

Understand that Betsy DeVos doesn't give a good goddamn about education or people's children unless they are rich or religious, and that your child's long term health or even death is a small price for her to pay as long as she and her family can keep getting richer and can keep shoving her religious beliefs down your throat.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Fuck the rich

Take your country back...from the rich

I had two takeaways from this video of Harvard students silently protesting a speech by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos:

First, it's how strong the resistance remains--from the marches on Trump's inauguration day to the travel ban protests to NFL players taking a knee to these students silently protesting a woman who got her job the rich people's way (she bought it) and the administration she represents, you have to feel that our hopes for taking back what will remain of America are strong.

The second one occurs at the end, when a student asks a perfectly reasonable question in a polite manner:  exactly how much money does billionaire DeVos, Wall Street, and other rich folks like the Koch Brothers stand to gain from turning our public education over to for profit organizations?  And at that point someone (presumably a member of Harvard faculty or one of its administrators) tells DeVos that she doesn't have to answer that question.  Why the fuck not?  It's a legitimate question and she's a public official getting paid by our tax dollars and answerable to we, the American people.

She most certainly has to fucking answer it and the fact that she didn't is entirely telling that her agenda isn't about helping America's children but is instead about making her greedy family even richer.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee