Teachers union head won't work with Trump, DeVos: 'I do not trust their motives'

The Syracuse Post-Standard ^ | July 3, 2017 | The Washington Post

[JayGalt]

“if a foreign government were to put our education system in place, it would be considered an act of war.”

Very apt, maybe it is an act of war. Alinsky taught his disciples well.

[meyer]

Competition will help cure their complacency. Monopolies are always complacent. This includes government monopolies and unions, which are basically monopolies.

[Vince Ferrer]

Every republican governor needs to go Scott Walker right now, during the Trump administration. Ask the president when his next tweet will be and then start cleaning out your state.

[upchuck]

Thank you and you’re right.

[M Kehoe]

Eskelsen Garcia cannot be entrusted with our children’s future.

Fixed it.

5.56mm

[grobdriver]

I see no reason to assume they will do what is best for our students and their families.

What they will do is let families do what is best for their children, you ignorant bi*ch.

And a lot of the time it isn't going to be to put them in your care.

[MayflowerMadam]

“They only care about themselves...they care nothing for the children “

I helped a local politician collect and tally citizens’ responses to a survey on many topics. Some were teachers. Only about 10% of them mentioned the children. They’re in their profession because they get summers off. They only have to work a few hours a day and get paid very well. There were many responses, but the children got short shrift.

[semaj]

The teacher Government unions need to be busted, broken,...period!!!

[beethoven]

The amount of gall demonstrated by E. Garcia is astounding. She thinks she has the right to go against the President and the Education Secretary? Hopefully, people are tired of their children being brainwashed instead of being educated.

[MarkL]

I believe that President Trump and Ms Devoss honestly wish to improve the failing education system.

The union wants to ensure that union members convicted of crimes and “teachers” who are unable to teach keep their jobs, which is turns out, is to make certain there’s an ever-growing underclass of uneducated sheep that can be herded to the will of the leftists.

Mark

[americas.best.days...]

How unprofessional! This dumb bitch has clearly never read The Art of the Deal. Some school success stories will unfold and her crappy teachers union will have had NOTHING to do with it.

TRUMP wins again.

[hal ogen]

Who would trust “the motives” of the head of the teachers’ union? No one, that’s who.

[Louis Foxwell]

The truth is DeVos will not work wit the NEA because it cannot be trusted to protect children. The goals of the Union are to protect the interests of its members, teacers and administrators. This is another union that should not exist. Its members are exclusively deep state employees.

[VeniVidiVici]

"We will find common ground with many Republicans and many Democrats on many issues. We will not find common ground with an administration that is cruel and callous to our children and their families. And I don't just judge them by their words; I judge them by their actions."

What actions?

Screw the unions. Force the states to get them out of the picture if they want access to federal funds.

[MileHi]

I want to know if they love other people’s children so much why, when, more money than ever is being spent, can’t Johnny/Janey read or do basic math when they finish 8th grade?

An that puts the lie to it all.

[Gene Eric]

Lily Eskelsen Garcia of the Democrat Thug Party.

[Saltmeat]

This woman is a mental case. She is screaming bear before she even enters the woods. She is advocating that Betsy DeVos will never proffer anything in the best interest of the children before she ever hears what Betsy has in mind.

No public funds, regardless of how small or insignificant, should ever be used to withhold union dues from public school teachers’ salaries. The union teachers can direct the union to debit their bank accounts monthly. Gov. Scott Walker forced this issue in Wisconsin and union membership declined. When many teachers felt they had a free choice, they dropped out of the union for their own personal reasons.

[seekthetruth]

“The truth is DeVos will not work with the NEA because it cannot be trusted to protect children. The goals of the Union are to protect the interests of its members, teachers and administrators. This is another union that should not exist. Its members are exclusively deep state employees.”

Agree totally! As an old public school teacher (age 76) after 43 years of teaching (retired 2006), I pray I will get to see the NEA demolished before the Lord takes me!
Go Trump!! Go DeVos!!:)

[Delta 21]

I hope the President picks up her gauntlet and soundly thrashes her and the union with it.

[JayGalt]

I think when you read her autobiographical details you get a better picture of her. She started out a widow with 2 children who worked as a lunch aide and went back to school got an education degree and got involved with the political side. She was recently elected as head of the NEA. She feels that she is the heroine of her story and there is only one story.

Her success is the only success and she needs to go up against the President and the secretary of education to prove she is powerful and won’t be cowed. As always the children, education, the return on education $ are totally unimportant because its all about the street cred of the NEA/and her personal worth.