Privatization Queen Betsy DeVos Gets Some Street Justice… Higher Education Style (good for you, Bethune-Cookman University)

Students don’t like DeVos. For one reason, she said a while ago that traditionally black universities were rooted in the “school choice” movement. Of course, that is self-serving ridiculous crap. Traditionally black schools are rooted in racism as their students, while qualified, couldn’t get accepted at other schools because of their race. Especially in the south.

Betsy later walked back that insensitive comment but the damage was already done.

Betsy DeVos is a silver-spooner idiot who’s family has donated over 200 million dollars to the Republican party over the course of several years. She knows nothing about teaching or about managing a school system but Trump made her Secretary of Education because she shares at least one neoliberal ideology with him and that is the desire to privatize public education so billionaires like Oprah, Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos can make a profit off of it. Also so they can make sure poor black people don’t get the same kind of education rich white kids get.

One of the key takeaways from her confirmation hearing is the fact that she does not think charter schools should be held to the same academic standards that public schools are held to. And she believes that because she knows public schools are held to those standards in order to make them look like they are failing so they can be privatized. She also knows that being run like a business, she wants owners of charter schools to be able to cut corners and do what they can to make the most profits regardless of the outcome on the education of the children in their charge.

Nothing is more disgusting to me than cheating a child out of a quality education and doing it for a fucking buck.

You steal a man’s life and he’s no longer around to suffer.

You steal his money and maybe eventually he can make more.

But you steal a child’s education you steal their goddamned future and nothing, I mean nothing is more despicable than that. Nothing.

She is a nasty, sickening human being who clearly thought this stunt would go over better than it did.

In the end, students calmed down a bit and let her get through her vapid patronizing little speech. At least one was escorted out holding up his right fist in defiance.

Yesterday, student in Chile took to the streets to demand education reforms. They are sick of privatized education. Some of you might recall, the charter school system was put in place by Augusto Pinochet after the CIA and the neoliberal Chicago Boys removed him from office on Sept. 11th, 1973. That’s the real foundation of “school choice” or the charter school system.

To the students at Bethune-Cookman University I wish to extend my congratulations to you all. I congratulate you on graduation and on your courage to stand up and turn your backs on that filthy little silver-spooner lying rat who defamed your day of celebration with her presence.

You stood in protest shoulder to shoulder with your brothers and sisters across the globe who oppose this horrible system and it’s messengers. And I couldn’t be happier or prouder too say I come from the same state of Florida as you brave kids. Good for you.

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