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These Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer Betsy DeVos But Send THEIR Kids To Fancypants Private
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/21/17 | Eric Owens

Posted on 02/22/2017 8:15:12 AM PST by ColdOne

Full title.....................These Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer Betsy DeVos But Send THEIR Kids To Fancypants Private Schools............

At least seven of the 46 Senate Democrats who voted against Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s newly-minted education secretary, currently send or once sent their own children or grandchildren to expensive private schools.

DeVos, a long-time school choice advocate from Michigan, was the architect of Detroit’s school charter system and formerly led the Alliance for School Choice advocacy group. She headed the American Federation for Children — which backs school choice for poor and underprivileged families — when Trump nominated her.

As The Daily Caller noted when DeVos was nominated, Trump has called school choice “the civil rights issue of our time,” especially for African-American children, who are unequally stuck in some of America’s worst public schools.

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What is terrifying is Franken has children.
1 posted on 02/22/2017 8:15:12 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

As does Fauxcahontas.


2 posted on 02/22/2017 8:17:38 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: ColdOne
Dems only want you to do as they say and not as they do'

At least seven of the 46 Senate Democrats who voted against Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump’s newly-minted education secretary, currently send or once sent their own children or grandchildren to expensive private schools.

3 posted on 02/22/2017 8:22:33 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: ColdOne
I live within a 5 minute drive of one of the most exclusive residential suburbs on earth (don't fear,folks,I'm very much "middle class").It's home to the likes of IIlary,the Kennedys,Kerrys,Pelosis,etc.When ballot initiative season rolls around there's always a question about raising taxes for school funding and in just about every yard you see a sign saying "vote yes,....for the children".

But when you drive around the town's $35,000/yr private academy the traffic jam of BMWs,Volvos and Priuses is endless.

Obscenely rich phonies.

4 posted on 02/22/2017 8:25:02 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: facedown
DeVoss is promoting vouchers which I've come to believe is government indoctrination (public school) via a different path.

I welcome discussion, critique, lambasting and banishment .... but this whole "education" thing is the root of America's demise or success.

NONE of the snowflakes came from a voucher school, Catholic parachial school, private school nor home school.

87%, 89% or 92% (I've found three different numbers) of all HS graduates in the USA are out of public school.

If a generation, or two or even three are "lost", it's because of public school, even before common core.

5 posted on 02/22/2017 8:25:21 AM PST by knarf
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To: ColdOne

Her first Order of Business should be to reign in all these Private Schools that are not teaching the EXACT SAME CURRICULUM as the Public Schools. And BOWLS OF CONDOMS should be in EVERY CLASSROOM in every Private School across America.


6 posted on 02/22/2017 8:30:15 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: ColdOne

“...Franken has children.”

I believe the proper noun to use here is “Hobbits”.


7 posted on 02/22/2017 8:36:03 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: ColdOne

Some are more equal than others.


8 posted on 02/22/2017 8:36:12 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Roger Kaputnik

LMFAO!


9 posted on 02/22/2017 8:38:45 AM PST by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

“hobbits” are gentle creatures. I would go with ‘gremlins’.


10 posted on 02/22/2017 8:43:49 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

“Gremlins” are cute, too, unless you feed them after dark.

Maybe “Orks”?


11 posted on 02/22/2017 9:11:33 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

Orks are big.. Imps?


12 posted on 02/22/2017 9:26:06 AM PST by ArtDodger
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13 posted on 02/22/2017 9:37:48 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: knarf

The end result will be contaminated schooling that used to be free from Gov. Control. (MONEY FOLLOWS CHILD-REGULATIONS AFFECT ALL STUDENTS) language in ESSA. Also, structural changes-UNELECTED SCHOOL BOARDS

REFORM-must include an honest debate about whether schools are for “training” or “educating”
Also get in behind AGENDA 21 (UNESCO) in our schools.
Growth of REGIONALISM (Soviet) many many things to discuss before you can go in and fix it..


14 posted on 02/22/2017 10:08:00 AM PST by magna carta
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To: magna carta
I'm an elected school board member causing all manner or difficulties for the socialists already on the board.

I got one other born again Christian on so we are now two against seven with more activism looking like we can pick up another one or two Conservative Patriots.

The point is .... the public school curriculum must be stopped and the socialist teachers must be fired and no more new ones hired.

School should be readin', writin' n' 'rithmetic with TRUE American and world history and TRUE civics INSTRUCTION/INDOCTRINATION (yep ... I DID say that)

Kids are graduated today with no moral and political compass, both of which are absolutely necessary to be a participant in our America as envisioned and as "birthed"

I realize I am too idealistic for this modern era but shooting for Mars landed us on the moon (at least that's how I evaluate our space accomplishment(s) ... we dreamed outer solar system and developed our next door neighbor)

15 posted on 02/22/2017 11:06:18 AM PST by knarf
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To: knarf

I agree. Why do they keep putting in UNESCO programs but not talking about it...weird


16 posted on 02/22/2017 11:12:40 AM PST by magna carta
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To: ArtDodger

Perhaps, but I still like Hobbit.


17 posted on 02/22/2017 12:16:00 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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