Betsy Devos frankly discusses education with a person having a masters degree in education

[Winco]

BS Filter's post #75 "Trade schools prepare you for an apprenticeship."

Right, I agree.

HS CTE courses prepare you too.
He says they don't.......defend your words BS Filter
Don't let others attempt to speak for you.

 

[BS Filter]

Correct, trades want young people who already have a propensity for their particular trade and would most likely more favorably consider an apprenticeship for such a person.

Apprenticeship is where you really learn your trade.

 

[P F Tinmore]

That is just stupid. Name one improvement she made, just one, or STFU. Almost from the get-go, she released the restrictions on predatory for-profit colleges and hamstringed efforts to hold some of those predatory so-called colleges accountable through the forgiveness of student loans acquired while attending them. She cut the employees investigating those scumbag schools from twelve to three. And the appointed team leader was a former dean of DeVry Education Group, one of the very institutions under investigation, how the hell does that work?

She stalled initiatives implemented by the Obama administration to protect student borrowers from those predatory schools and they were only implemented after she lost the case in Federal court. Her primary agenda, "school choice", which is a misnomer, it ain't about "choice", it is about federal dollars used to subsidize wealthy private school tuition, period. Few, if any, poor people make it to those schools with those vouchers They get better results by applying for scholarship programs to schools like Philips Academy Andover, Choate Rosemary Hall, or Harvard Westlake.

Furthermore, she was deeply involved in the school choice program in Michigan and yet when asked, she couldn't provide a single example of any improvement in the Michagan school system since her supported programs were implemented, matter of fact, it got worse.

And the kicker, test scores during her tenure absolutely plummeted to the lowest level in decades. Sure, you can blame much of that on Covid, but like Trump, her inept handling of the situation only made matters worse. This bitch left a damn disaster behind. A suicide epidemic among young females, depression level among students and young adults at record levels, and almost an entire generation losing tens of thousands of dollars in future earnings because of the disastrous education policy of this spoiled silver spoon little bitch that had ZERO experience in public education.

Her primary agenda, "school choice", which is a misnomer, it ain't about "choice", it is about federal dollars used to subsidize wealthy private school tuition, period.

"You can send your children to a private school like the rich people."

Then they give you a voucher that would not buy lunch at a real private school.