One of the biggest criticisms of the new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is her lack of experience in public schools. From my point of view that’s one of the best things about her! She’s not mired down by the burgeoning bureaucracy of public education which has not helped our schools in world educational rankings. Our schools cost more and more and educate less and less. Another global educational chart here.
As I have long complained, our schools are top heavy. School administrations increase, in both numbers and cost, far out pacing the increase in students as is easily seen in this chart:
THIS ^ is why we need Betsy DeVos and not some public school educrat who has spent decades in public schools supporting the massive bureaucracy that is busy increasing their numbers and lining their own pockets but not helping to educate our students. Shouldn’t education be the main focus? And not expansion of the bureaucracies?
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Great article about failing education:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/25/education-department-report-finds-billions-spent-under-obama-had-no-impact-on-achievement.html
Spot on!^^ It’s hard to #DrainTheSwamp when you like it and you’re standing IN the swamp. Betsy DeVos is the perfect choice to lead the Dept of Ed while it’s being eliminated and shut down.
Picking DeVos is yet another one of Trump’s brilliant decisions. Keep on #MAGA, Mr. President, please! I’m not tired of winning yet.
Nice. It being qualified is now a qualification for a job?
Not being qualified…
You’re going to have to qualify that.
JM writes “One of the biggest criticisms of the new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is her lack of experience in public schools. From my point of view that’s one of the best things about her” – specifically stating that lack of experience somehow qualifies someone for a job. I wish that applied to all the jobs I would love to have but never felt qualified. Brain surgeon, 5 start chef, wall street banker…
Another non-nonsensical post by JM – there are plenty of people who would be better qualified BECAUSE they are experienced and qualified!!! You can probably find some that are republicans!!!! But to think that no experience is what makes someone good is crazy talk
She doesn’t have to have been a teacher to know how broken our education system is. The last person who should be in that job is a someone who has supported the teachers unions and the education bureaucracy.
Never said she had to be a teacher. You DID say she should have no experience. There are other choices.
Seems like she had enough experience for Cory Booker.
She’s not the Secretary of Public Schools, she’s the Secretary of Education.
Our education has gotten worse since the implementation of the DOE. Big expense, lousy results — I prefer someone who views the current system with a jaundiced eye. And an executive is different from the skilled trades you mentioned in your false comparison.
how about an executive that has experience? Why do the folks here at TBE disqualify candidates for being actually qualified? There are many folks in the country who have worked in education, have advanced degrees in public policy, and are advocates for doing things right who, by JM’s standard, not be qualified for the position simply because they have experience.
Keep in mind that I am simply pointing out the stupidity of JM’s comments and not commenting on DeVos
“She’s not the Secretary of Public Schools, she’s the Secretary of Education.” That’s a great point. Education is so much more.