Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom Plan for Covid-19: My Way or the Highway!
Take the highway! For four years, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has worked to destroy democratic public schools and the teaching profession while touting her Education Freedom plan, vouchers.
But Americans should be asking what she really means by educational freedom after this past week. The freedom to determine what safe schooling means in your community doesn’t seem to be a part of the DeVos, Trumpian ideology. There’s no freedom when you’re told what you must do, or else.
As states and local school districts struggle to deal with a world catastrophe, made difficult by poor leadership from D.C., DeVos and her boss are saying schools must reopen. Neither gives suggestions as to how this should be done safely. Nor do they promise adequate funds for it to happen. It’s a reelection gamble for Trump, who sees the coronavirus as belonging to the Democrats.
Even Fox News host Neil Cavuto seemed astonished at DeVos’s cavalier disregard for the coronavirus. He said, In the communities that have seen spiking cases, wouldn’t it be reckless of a governor or even a mayor in those locales to go ahead and reopen CONTINUE READING: Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom Plan for Covid-19: My Way or the Highway!