Betsy DeVos’ right-wing school indoctrination program betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the differences between public and private schools
The billionaire heiress who bought her position as Donald Trump's Education Secretary plans to spend $5 billion of your tax dollars on private, religious, and parochial schools.
What do you do when thinking people reject your political ideology?
You get rid of thinking people.
That’s Betsy DeVos’ plan to rejuvenate and renew the Republican Party.
The billionaire heiress who bought her position as Donald Trump’s Education Secretary plans to spend $5 billion of your tax dollars on private, religious, and parochial schools.
This would be federal tax credits to fund scholarships to private and religious institutions—school vouchers in all but name.
It’s a federal child indoctrination program to ensure that the next generation has an increasing number of voters who think science is a lie, white supremacy is heritage and the Bible is history—you know, people just gullible enough to believe a reality show TV star who regularly cheats on his many wives with porn stars is God’s chosen representative on Earth. A measure to make child kidnapping, imprisonment, and wrongful death seem like a measured response to backward immigration policy. A measure to make collusion and fraternization with the world’s worst dictators and strongmen seem like global pragmatism.
To make matters even more galling, consider the timing of DeVos’ proposal.
In the beginning of February, Donald Trump Jr. criticized “loser teachers” who he said were indoctrinating school children into—gasp—socialism.
At the end of that same month, DeVos proposed funding Christian madrasas from sea-to-shinning-sea.
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