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This is an extremely odd family.

 

Betsy DeVos strong advocate for Charter Schools and is nominated to lead the Department of Education.

 

Brother, Mr. Prince, and his company are paid mercenaries working in some of the most dangerous spots in the world and for multiple governments.

 

Mother, runs an anti-gay foundation.

 

What else needs to be found out about this family?

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OK...if it's this easy to prove she lied to the Senate, shouldn't that immediately make her ineligible for the position?

 

You'd think so.

 

 

1. Refuse to fill out required paperwork required for ethics office re: financial ties and conflicts of interest.

 

2. Turn it in late with errors and omissions

 

3. Fail to answer basic questions about the area of government you want to lead.

 

4. ?????

 

5. Profit! MAGA!

 

Can't wait to see step 4. It's going to be a doozy.

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This is an extremely odd family.

 

Betsy DeVos strong advocate for Charter Schools and is nominated to lead the Department of Education.

 

Brother, Mr. Prince, and his company are paid mercenaries working in some of the most dangerous spots in the world and for multiple governments.

 

Mother, runs an anti-gay foundation.

 

What else needs to be found out about this family?

 

I don't know if anyone already mentioned it, but she also married into Amway.

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I'm not here to support DeVos. I'm at best in wait and see mode and at worst, think she's the wrong person for the job.

 

I also don't know the intricate details of IDEA. However, two things:

 

1) One reason why No Child Left Behind was a total failure was because it was the federal government putting demands on state and local school systems that were underfunded and just plain didn't work at the local level. I have no problem with more decisions on how things are done being decided at the state level.

 

2) (and I know I might get totally lambasted for this but I'm going to say it anyway) There are lots of handicapped children that the school system should not be forced into main streaming. I'm not sure this is part of IDEA or some other legislation. But, in our school system alone, one heck of a lot of money, resources and teacher's time is spent with kids in the class rooms for classes that they will have no chance of ever using the information.

 

Our school spends more money and resources on handicapped children who will never be able to take care of themselves let alone use the education we are trying to provide, then we spend on the top end students in advanced study classes. Does that make sense?

 

Now...again....I am not sure if this is part of the discussion about IDEA. But, if it is, I'm not prepared to disagree with what I'm reading here being said by Miss DeVos.

 

And...once again....this is NOT in support of DeVos for this job.

 

I'll take a crack at #2.

 

This is just spoken from my own experiences. My mother was a social worker for may years until our school district did some reorganizing and transitioned her into a special ed strategist role. Basically, she went from working with families who needed a social worker to working directly with special ed teachers to help them teach their students.

 

From what I learned secondhand through our district's structure, special ed students are mostly shifted into their own classes anyway by middle or high school. We didn't typically try to force a square peg through a round hole and try to keep them in standard classes, and parents were mostly cool with the transition.

 

The classes focused on teaching communication and life skills to help these students when they were out in the real world.

 

I also know from my work that the support structure for the disabled community drops off sharply after they turn 21. You've aged out of the system at that point and can no longer continue with education programs. This is often devastating for them because it's what their entire life has been - it's where their friends are and what provides them with structure. Change is hard for anyone but particularly so for those with disabilities.

 

After you age out, there are not very many options. Most who are physically capable seek out work at agencies that can provide specialized work, but there's never enough of that. A lot of them wound up thrust out into the world before they're truthfully probably ready and may have to work a job they hate or aren't well suited for. My work was nice because we offered different types of camps and programs for both kids and adults. They could come in and have a good time with friends they already knew or make new ones. We worked specifically on life skills, creativity, and proper social behavior. But as great a resource as we were, again, there's never enough of those supply to meet the demand, and it was relatively expensive to do some of these programs and camps.

 

Long blurb, I know. But I guess overall my point is just that there's not much support for kids with disabilities once they age out of the school system, and even in school there are likely kids falling through the cracks. I think any effort to strip funding or divert resources away from these kids would be a grave, grave mistake. The skills they learn in school teach them how to operate in the real world and they are absolutely vital for them to have a healthy life. This population provides an opportunity to create more jobs for those who are passionate about helping these kids rather than a drain on resources.

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Been out of pocket all day and I must say in watching highlights on the DeVos, Price and etc hearings has made me just depressed and despondent. Is this really the best our country has to offer, or more so, does our PEOTUS really think these are good options?

 

The positive I see (fingers crossed) coming out of the next few weeks is that after seeing how absolutely unqualified, and criminal some of these nominees are that the Dems will form a very united front, and the GOP members that are in their jobs for the right reasons will join them.

 

I listened to Obama's final press conference today - I wish I had his optimism that at our core we're good people - I just don't see it in everyone right now.

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‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood

 

Apart from the hilarious/scary fact Perry didn't understand what the Department of Energy actually did, this snippet was perfectly blunt.

 

If approved by the Senate, he will take over from a secretary, Ernest J. Moniz, who was chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department and directed the linear accelerator at M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Before Mr. Moniz, the job belonged to Steven Chu, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize.

For Mr. Moniz, the future of nuclear science has been a lifelong obsession; he spent his early years working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Mr. Perry studied animal husbandry and led cheers at Texas A&M University.
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‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood

 

Apart from the hilarious/scary fact Perry didn't understand what the Department of Energy actually did, this snippet was perfectly blunt.

 

If approved by the Senate, he will take over from a secretary, Ernest J. Moniz, who was chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department and directed the linear accelerator at M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Before Mr. Moniz, the job belonged to Steven Chu, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize.

For Mr. Moniz, the future of nuclear science has been a lifelong obsession; he spent his early years working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Mr. Perry studied animal husbandry and led cheers at Texas A&M University.

 

 

Asking again since none of you Trumpeters or GOPers seem to want to answer.

 

How can you reconcile putting Rick Perry in charge of the nukes?

 

I heard plenty of you "100% Pro Lifers" and Trumpeters tout Trump as a Pro Life candidate. How "Pro Life" is it to put Rick Perry, a supremely unqualified person in charge of the greatest killing force the world has ever seen?

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