'Bye, Betsy': Educators Celebrate the End of the DeVos Era

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https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-11-10/bye-betsy-educators-celebrate-the-end-of-the-devos-era

‘Bye, Betsy’: Educators Celebrate the End of the DeVos Era
Stakeholders in the education community celebrated Joe Biden’s victory because it means the end of the troubled tenure of Betsy DeVos.



AFTER THE 2020 presidential election was called for Joe Biden on Saturday, the country's educators released a collective sigh of relief knowing that, at long last, the days were numbered for the woman they consider Public (School) Enemy No. 1: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

The national teachers unions, their city and state affiliates, school superintendents, principals, educators and parents took to social media to throw DeVos an early retirement party, posting photos and videos of themselves popping bottles of champagne with tears in their eyes, retweeting GIFs and memes of doors being slammed shut, of actors performing trite "buh-byes" and of photoshopped pictures of DeVos as Cruella de Vil and other Disney movie villains.

The Chicago Teachers Union lit up Twitter with two words: "Bye Betsy."

Hours later, their palpable release was bolstered by Biden, who in his victory speech gave them the warm hug they had been pining for.

"For America's educators, this is a great day," he said. "You're going to have one of your own in the White House. And Jill is going to make a great first lady."

Jill Biden, a member of the National Education Association, is an English teacher at a community college in Virginia.

"We were so happy," Mandy Manning, the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, says.

Manning has been an educator for 22 years, including the last 11 teaching immigrant and refugee students English and math in Spokane, Washington.

"We are so excited to see a return to support for public schools because, while we have a lot of work to do in order to be able to serve each and every student, public schools are where that's actually going to happen," she says. "I am so hopeful and it's such a good feeling after not having that for so long."

DeVos, who was repeatedly ranked the most unpopular Cabinet secretary in the Trump administration, is also one of the president's longest serving.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-11-10/bye-betsy-educators-celebrate-the-end-of-the-devos-era

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[BigmanPigman]

1. The Anti-Education Cabinet Secretary

She is one in a long list of tRump's cabinet who did the opposite of what their title was. Bizarro Cabinet appointees were the norm for 4 long years. Of course all her family $$$ bought her that position. I went to my district's School Board to complain when they invited her to come speak in 2017. She was uninvited by the end of the day...I obviously wasn't the only one complaining apparently.

[blogslut]

2. Bye girl, bye!

Take your terrible brother with you.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead

GOOD RIDDANCE!

[Blue Owl]

4. DeVos and DeJoy -- two of DeWorst

[lunatica]

5. LOL!