TheProgressivePatriot
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Yes, there have been other threads about Betsy DeVos. However, the most recent has been dormant since February of this year, while DeVos continues here rampage intent on destroying the concept of a free public education. Worse, her policies are resulting in the teaching of theology based hate to vulnerable and impressionable young people. No one could express the impact better than a former victim brainwashing by an Evangelical school :
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-voucher-evangelical-education-betsy-devos_us_5a021962e4b04e96f0c6093c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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In my opinion, this is tantamount to child abuse. It is also bad for the country and bad for the economy because we are producing young people who are ill equipped to deal with the real world, emotionally and intellectually.
Here is more on DeVos
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dear-betsy-devos-the-religious-rights-education-agenda/
This cannot be allowed to continue!! We should not allow the American Taliban to be educating our children
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-voucher-evangelical-education-betsy-devos_us_5a021962e4b04e96f0c6093c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
PORTLAND, Ore. ― It was late morning in an artsy cafe, the smell of coffee and baked goods sweetening the air, and Ashley Bishop sat at a table, recalling a time when she was taught that most of secular American society was worthy of contempt.
Growing up in private evangelical Christian schools, Bishop saw the world in extremes, good and evil, heaven and hell. She was taught that to dance was to sin, that gay people were child molesters and that mental illness was a function of satanic influence. Teachers at her schools talked about slavery as black immigration, and instructors called environmentalists “hippie witches.”
So when Bishop left school in 2003 and entered the real world at 17, she felt like she was an alien landing on Planet Earth for the first time. Having been cut off from mainstream society, she felt unequipped to handle the job market and develop secular friendships. Lacking shared cultural and historical references, she spent most of her 20s holed up in her bedroom, suffering from crippling social anxiety.
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President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have openly championed such programs and have encouraged states to embrace school choice, arguing that voucher programs give parents an alternative to low-performing public schools. Currently 14 states and the District of Columbia have voucher programs, and 17 have tax credit programs. DeVos has made it a top priority to push a federal school choice initiative.
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The textbooks used at all of Bishop’s schools were published by three of the most popular, and most ideologically extreme, Christian textbook companies: Abeka, Bob Jones University Press and Accelerated Christian Education. The ideas in these textbooks often flout widely accepted science and historical fact.
In my opinion, this is tantamount to child abuse. It is also bad for the country and bad for the economy because we are producing young people who are ill equipped to deal with the real world, emotionally and intellectually.
Here is more on DeVos
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dear-betsy-devos-the-religious-rights-education-agenda/
The Council for National Policy—a secretive network of right-wing religious and political leaders that shares and shapes conservative political strategies—has an ambitious policy agenda for Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education when Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote.
The group’s big picture goal is to eliminate what it calls “the worst abuses in current state systems” while promoting “a gradual, voluntary return at all levels to free-market private schools, church schools and home schools as the normative American practice.”
Sounds a bit like the late Jerry Falwell’s dream that he would live to see the day when “we won’t have any public schools” because the “churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.” As scholar Julie Ingersoll, author of a book about Christian Reconstructionism, has noted, “It’s been a long-standing goal of the Religious Right to replace public education with Christian education.”
This cannot be allowed to continue!! We should not allow the American Taliban to be educating our children