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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeVos equates lack of school choice with communist East Germany
In remarks to the conservative Young Americas Foundation, DeVos recalled her own travels decades ago in which she saw the stark differences between tyranny and freedom in East and West Germany. And she lauded President Ronald Reagans purpose and principle in fighting successfully to tear down the Berlin Wall.
While that wall was reduced to rubble, theres another kind of wall that needs tearing down today, DeVos said at the gathering at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. This wall is just as old and just as devastating to those who through no fault of their own happen to live on the wrong side.
DeVos said she was describing a figurative wall in the United States that separates wealthy, powerful or well-connected students from those who arent wealthy, powerful or well-connected.
Families who arent wealthy have about as much education freedom in America today as East Germans had freedom to do anything back then, she said.
DeVos continued the metaphor further, seemingly drawing a parallel between unions and the evil empire, a label that Reagan used to describe the Soviet Union.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/17/devos-east-germany-california-1331702
While that wall was reduced to rubble, theres another kind of wall that needs tearing down today, DeVos said at the gathering at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. This wall is just as old and just as devastating to those who through no fault of their own happen to live on the wrong side.
DeVos said she was describing a figurative wall in the United States that separates wealthy, powerful or well-connected students from those who arent wealthy, powerful or well-connected.
Families who arent wealthy have about as much education freedom in America today as East Germans had freedom to do anything back then, she said.
DeVos continued the metaphor further, seemingly drawing a parallel between unions and the evil empire, a label that Reagan used to describe the Soviet Union.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/17/devos-east-germany-california-1331702
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DeVos equates lack of school choice with communist East Germany (Original Post)
demmiblue
May 2019
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spanone
(135,829 posts)1. ..but she's fine with trump's wall and stealing children from their parents. She's sick.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)2. "I need another tax cut"
onlyadream
(2,166 posts)3. So fix the public schools in the poorer areas.
Give poor students food, help, mentors.
dlk
(11,561 posts)4. What DeVos Really Means is the Lack of the Ability to Make a Huge Profit from Schools is "Evil"
First, last and always, DeVos is a vulture capitalist.