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DeVos asked if she has a plan to reopen schools. See her response
CNN's Dana Bash speaks to Education Secretary Besty DeVos about whether or not she has a plan for schools to safely reopen for students as Covid-19 cases surge in the US.
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elleng
(130,644 posts)cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Will not answer the question, just says go back to school...
What a piece of work.
BigmanPigman
(51,552 posts)People have to get back to work, it is good for the economy, blah, blah, blah. NOTHING about Science, doctors' suggestions, teachers' and school districts' opinions, new buildings and supplies, no money as it is, ongoing and increasing pandemic, etc.
To really be a super bitch she threatens them with $$$ cuts. It is always about the $$$ with these assholes.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)personally rich bitch, head of education, because you helped kill them Amway harpie?
Phoenix61
(16,990 posts)answer out of DeVos. Sadly, it didnt work.
pazzyanne
(6,541 posts)Betsy can only vomit out the talking points that she has been given. She has no dedication to improving education, only the desire to support the tRump mis-administration.
Skittles
(153,100 posts)fuck you, HAT SPAT woman
Maraya1969
(22,457 posts)be ready to let kids go back to school around the time that schools are supposed to open.
We can stop the spread of this virus by mandating masks.
For that reason alone Trump should be removed by the 25th amendment and if Pence doesn't do it then Nancy Pelosi should take over.
This is a matter of life and death
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Republicans for years have been attempting to destroy the public school system. Church schools, charter schools and home schooling.
Wait, DeVos just listed all of the harm that comes to kids when they are not in a classroom. That would mean that these same harms would come to kids that are home schooled. So, which is it?
Alliepoo
(2,208 posts)The point you made about kids that are home schooled!!
mucifer
(23,458 posts)What is a few days flair up of covid???
Chainfire
(17,433 posts)Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)As if the Center for Disease Control is just another "opinion." She follows the guidance of the YMCA versus the experts in the field.
We are so fu*ked.
kacekwl
(7,008 posts)is hard. She shows she like trump is lazy and expects the minions to do the work. Resgin now for the sake of education and children.
MiniMe
(21,706 posts)Fall behind what? Every kid in the world right now is in the same situation. She is a total ditz
jaxexpat
(6,786 posts)It's always for sale and bargain prices are just around the corner.
"Conservatives" never have good ideas on how to deal with unanticipated turns of events. They're just not wired for thinking out of their box. They rely on lying as the go-to method of justification for their disasters. All that power and no good result, ever. De Vos is simply a classic example of silver spoon fed, pyramid scheme inheriting, "how dare you repeat hard questions" huffing, "I don't have to do this job for a living, you know" attitude, "volunteerism". But lady, this ain't the PTA.
usaf-vet
(6,156 posts)Warpy
(111,106 posts)or even Smart Phone. Some parents I know have thought that inadequate, so they've started home schooling. Yes, kids are going to be behind where they should be, but they'll be alive and behind, something preferable to being caught up and then dead.
DeVos has tried to justify this by citing the rosiest numbers for child fatality from this diseas, something that would kill "only" about 15,000 kids across the country. She has neglected the morbidity statistics, the number of kids with longlasting problems. She wants the default day care system open again so she can get back on the gravy train.
And Betsy, those nerd glasses aren't helping you look smarter. You look like an airhead in borrowed nerd glasses.