DeVos Confirmation Makes Immigrants Americas Only Source of Educated People

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Second article by Andy Borowitz today. Trump's giving him a wealth of material.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Senate’s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary means that immigrants will be the nation’s only reliable source of educated people going forward, education experts said on Tuesday.

Under DeVos, according to Davis Logsdon, the dean of the University of Minnesota’s School of Education, the U.S. will have to “drastically increase its inflow of immigrants” if it wants people capable of performing even the simplest tasks.

“Most of our industries require people who can read, write, and do arithmetic, even in a rudimentary way,” he said. “The Senate just shot that to hell.”

With DeVos running the Department of Education, Logsdon said, millions of American students “will graduate from high school each year without mastering any useful skills—in other words, much like DeVos herself.”

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[Else You Are Mad]

1. Sadly...

This is about a year or so away from no longer being a satire piece.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. And some parochial schools. 12-year Catholic school survivor here.

One thing I can say for it, they took secular education as seriously as they took religious education. They taught me to think for myself, to the extent that by the time I graduated I no longer believed the religious part.

[hunter]

3. The wealthy want their own children first in line for a quality education...

... and everyone else to go without.

People with critical thinking skills see through their lies.

But look what happens: So many children of the wealthy grow up to be incurious spoiled twits and bullies, too lazy to exercise their minds, even in a university environment.

Eventually things get so shitty here in the U.S.A. that the educated immigrants stop coming, and our own best and brightest start leaving.

And then there is nothing left of the U.S.A. but a great swamp of ignorance and the people trapped in it.

The New Republican Party, the party of racists, the party of ignorance, the party of deceit, is destroying us from within. Nations that hated us no longer have to fear us, we are destroying ourselves from within.

Those of us who still have hope must do everything we can to stop this. We must stand up to these bullies who do not justly represent us.

[Yavin4]

4. The problem is that the wealthy, well-educated kids only want certain jobs.

Like Ivanka, they want to be CEOs of fashion companies, work in entertainment, or some other such job. They don't want to work in the intellectually challenging and rigorous fields like computer science, chemical research, engineering, etc.

This is why some companies have to import talent from abroad. In other countries, kids are directed to study these fields and those that excel get to go the better universities.

[hunter]

6. It's a function of how they are raised.

They've never learned to appreciate an intellectual challenge. To them, it's all about gaming the system, what they can get for the least amount of effort. Following the example of their parents, they've learned they can pay somebody to do all the difficult work, everything from housekeeping to engineering. The boss doesn't have to know any of that.

But not every "rich kid" is like that. There are a few who grow up in intellectually challenging environments. I've met a few scientists like that, many the children of tech fortunes, large and small.

Julie Packard, one of the founders of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is such a person. She knows the science, she can do the math. (I picked her because she's a public figure, not for any other reason... My first thought was a U.S. government scientist who's probably been backing up documents as fast as she can before Trump's goons arrive to destroy them.)

[PA Democrat]

5. Little Tommy Trust Fund should not have to compete with smarter kids from

lower income families. It's tough being a spoiled brat! Just ask our "so-called" president,

[hunter]

7. And oh the horror if Tommy Trust Fund has to compete with the child of undocumented farm workers...

... who was successful in spite of the poor schools and rough living situations of her childhood.