About Those “Failing-Government” Schools
In promoting US ed sec Betsy DeVos’ pet project of private school vouchers during his February 04, 2020, State of the Union address, President Donald Trump used a far-right, DeVosian description of America’s public schools as “failing government schools.”
Never mind that Trump heads the government and that DeVos heads those “government schools.” What is needed, according to DeVos-via-Trump, is a private-school escape.
Betsy DeVos
I just want to note for the record that I agree with Trump and DeVos about “failing” and “government” in connection to America’s public schools, but, being an English teacher, I will add one wee mark of punctuation to their phrase, clarifying it as such:
Failing-government schools.
For decades, the government (federal and state) has been failing America’s public schools.
That little hyphen says it all.
First came the Texas miracle under then-governor George W. Bush, which was no miracle at all, it turns out:
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