In an interview that aired on Sirius XM this
past Friday education secretary Betsy DeVos
actually said that the pandemic has been a
good thing for the public school system here
in the United States. And she believes it's
been a good thing because it has forced these
schools that are just so far behind the times.
It is forced them to finally innovate. Here's
the exact quote from education secretary,
Betsy DeVos. I think this pandemic is a good
thing because I think it's going to really
force changes that should have happened many
years ago. And most of that's going to happen
when families themselves are empowered to
make those choices. And those changes in those
decisions. So not only is she saying that
it's, you know, forcing schools to finally
innovate and upgrade and update, uh, but also,
you know, it's going to let families know
how crappy public schools are so they can
make the choice to send their kids to private
schools, charter schools, you know, the schools
that Betsy Davos actually has a financial
stake in. So she's glad this happened.
Because she gets to make more money off of
it. That's what this boils down to folks,
because with every member of this administration,
it always comes back to how can I profit off
of whatever the hell is happening in the country
today? And Betsy DeVos thinks she found hers.
That's why she's out there giving interviews
like this. Here's the reality. Yeah. The pandemic
has forced schools to innovate. It's forced
them to have to think on their feet in a way
that they never thought they would have to
do. It has forced them to become far more
versatile than they were ready to become,
but they did it. They pulled it off and they
pulled it off with almost no resources. That's
the phenomenal thing, by the way, that's also
the reason why they weren't able to do this
in the past. Betsy, it's not because schools
were lazy.
It's not because they just didn't think it
was necessary. It's because for decades, Republicans
have starved our public education system of
the funds that they need to properly function.
And Democrats have been more than willing
along the way to, you know, go, go with that
too. But this was Republican plan. This was
Republican policy all the way back in the
Bush years, right? No child left behind. Let's
put, uh, all these stringent standards on
these school districts that we know the poor
school districts aren't going to be able to
make. And then they're not going to be able
to get funding, but then we're going to push
through this voucher program. That's going
to use federal money instead of going to public
schools, they're going to get to go to private
schools to put more money in the pocket of
people like Betsy Devoss, ah, see how it all
comes full circle folks. That's what this
is. That is part of the reason we've had this
attack on public education in the United States
for so, because you've got all these Republican
donors, all of these Republican cronies, like
divos who have a stake in it, a financial
stake in it.
We have been doing children in this country,
a disservice since, you know, basically since
I was in school, schools have been underfunded.
Teachers have definitely been underpaid and
undervalued and they have emerged as one of
the unsung heroes of the pandemic. You know,
rightfully we do give a lot of credit to the
first responders to the, to the medical field.
Those people do deserve our praise and our
admiration for what they've done during this
pandemic. But so do the teachers, I mean,
let's not forget schools across the country
were shut down with about 25% of the school
year or 20% of the school year, at least still
left to go last year. They had to suddenly
figure out a way to continue teaching their
classes without ever going back into their
classroom.
That's pretty remarkable as someone who's
married to an educator, I saw first hand how
difficult that was as somebody who had to
teach their kids from home. I got to finally
experience how difficult it is to sit there
and wrangle these kids and teach them these
concepts without losing your patience every
five seconds. And Betsy DeVos has the audacity
to go out there and say, thank God the pandemic
happened. Otherwise we would never have had
these great innovations. And also at the same
time showed how dysfunctional the public school
system is. So parents can finally choose to
send their kids to a school that maybe I'm
invested in. No teachers deserve all the praise.
Betsy Davos deserves to be thrown out on her,
but because of how lazy and incompetent and
corrupt that woman truly is.
