DeVos Demands Taxpayer Money For Religious Schools

[ashling]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/05/devos-demands-taxpayer-money-for-religious-schools/

The fact that DeVos wants to destabilize public schools while shifting taxpayer money to religious schools is not a surprise. In fact, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a radical Christian extremist who wants to use American schools to “advance God’s kingdom.”

[dalton99a]

2. She has spent a lifetime working to end public education as we know it

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary/
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America’s Schools to Build “God’s Kingdom”
Trump’s education secretary pick has spent a lifetime working to end public education as we know it.
Kristina Rizga | Mar/Apr 2017 Issue

[BigmanPigman]

3. This is what all of my teacher friends think of Betsy...

..

This is what I think of her brother "Blackwater" Eric Prince...

[Alethia Merritt]

4. Our very own Taliban.

How long will it take to rid our government of these people?

[Rhiannon12866]

5. How far are these extremist nut jobs allowed to go??

I was a kid in elementary school when prayer was eliminated in public schools. If anyone wants to send their kids to private schools, where religious education is part of the curriculum, they're free to, but it's not up to the taxpayers to subsidize it.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Especially when...

the institutions behind religious schools are tax exempt!......

[Rhiannon12866]

8. That is an excellent point!

And shouldn't Betsy DeVos be expected to know that obvious fact?? I swear that anyone on DU would do a better job than any of Trump's clueless picks!

[ashling]

12. Just to be clear

'Prayer' was never eliminated in public schools.

Officially proscribed or led prayer was.

A recent SCOTUS case on point is
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (1995)

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. I demand DeVos family money to fix my pickup truck.

My daughter, a public school teacher, has to spend lots of her own money every year to buy essentials for her classes. What the hell is wrong with these people?

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[vi5]

9. Devos is a nutjob....

...but let's not also pretend that on this particular issue that there's miles of daylight between her position and Arne Duncan's and President Obama's.

Both were and are for "school choice", charter schools and "vouchers" which are pretty much tantamount to allowing private and religious schools to access and siphon money from public education.

There are plenty of issues where there is Grand Canyon sized chasms between the Obama admin's positions and Trump's. But public education is not one of them.

[gratuitous]

10. But Planned Parenthood can't serve women's health needs

Because through some infernal alchemy federal dollars spent on women's health might somehow be spent on abortion.

Welcome to RepublicanLogicLand, where nothing can possibly . . . go wrong. Go wrong. Go wrong. Go wrong.

[stopbush]

11. Using tax $ to fund the teaching of make believe

as if said make believe is fact-based.

What’s next? Spending tax $ to teach that Mickey Mouse is a real mouse?