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SPOILER ALERT: DEVOS IS IGNORANT
Betsy DeVos Warns That Biden Will Pick Education Secretary with Background in Education
Andy Borowitz reminds us, in his own entertaining way, that Betsy DeVos hates public schools and knows nothing about education.
While Borowitz’s article is satire, it sadly describes more than one of the nation’s Secretaries of Education (and Bill Bennett probably hated public schools just as much as Betsy…and he was only barely better at keeping it hidden). In fact, knowing nothing about education seems to have been a prerequisite for most of the eleven secretaries. Only three of eleven Secretaries of Education have any experience in K-12 education. And, as far as I know, only one of those three, Terrel Bell, ever actually taught in a public K-12 classroom. John King Jr., who was President Obama’s Secretary of Education for one year, taught in charter CONTINUREADING: 2020 Medley #26 — Articles you shouldn’t miss | Live Long and Prosper