This is what Sec. DeVos said about our teachers after her visit. Needless to say, we're about to take her to school... @dcpublicschools pic.twitter.com/Wcx1YyqDHL— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
First, the secretary visited the classroom of Ashley Shepherd and Britany Locher, a dynamic co-teaching team that differentiates for the...— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
needs of students ranging from a first grade level to an eighth grade level in reading. They build amazing relationships with students and..— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
maintain a positive classroom environment focused on rigorous content, humor, and love. They aren't waiting to be told what to do.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Then she saw Latisha Trent in action. Ms. Trent has been at Jefferson for 3 years, and each year her students grow MULTIPLE grade levels...— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
in Math. EVERY student realizes his or her maximum potential in Ms. Trent's room. She isn't waiting to be told what to do.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Then the Sec. met Band teacher Jessica Harris, who has built our Music program from the ground up. Ms. Harris pours her heart into her work.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Ms. Harris is patient, kind, relentless, and reflective. She is everything you want in a teacher. She isn't waiting to be told what to do.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Morgan Markbreiter was there as well. Ms. MB has unleashed the passion of countless students through her Video Game Design course. MB also..— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
runs our INCREDIBLE after-school program, which provides FREE tutoring and enrichment to our kids. She isn't waiting to be told what to do.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Apparently somebody brought this to the attention of DeVos who then sent out this attempt at conciliation.JA teachers are not in a "receive mode." Unless you mean we "receive" students at a 2nd grade level and move them to an 8th grade level.— Jefferson Academy (@JATrojans) February 18, 2017
Somehow I doubt that the teachers will be fooled by that..@JATrojans Your teachers are awesome! They deserve MORE freedom to innovate and help students.— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED) February 18, 2017
Educators are by definition intelligent and well informed.
They know what's coming, and it terrifies them.
NCLB crippled public education in this country, and DeVos clearly has plans to finally put it out of its misery.
(H/T to the Daily Dot.)
So I guess DeVos was ticked that there were no Bibles lying around, and no required group prayers? I mean, teachers should be free to proselytize, right? Perhaps when she visits a charter school, she'll hear a Muslim prayer, a Jewish prayer, and be blessed with the knowledge that all kids deserve to choose whether to believe or not?
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the moment when DeVos attempts to explain how diverting public funds to for-profit charter schools and cutting education budgets will result in "MORE freedom", 'cause you KNOW it's coming...
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Dog works in mysterious ways.
DeleteRoll Tide!
DeleteDevos' first sentence is a run-on doooozy.
ReplyDeleteSheeeeit!!!
Once again, DeVos shows how sentence-challenged she is.
ReplyDeleteIf Betsy LA go had any sincere interest in adding value to teaching, she would have refused the cabinet position .She is an smug, ignorant low rent moron with money.
ReplyDeleteShe is condescending and is not fit to suck my #$%&!
In my little state, the local paper explained how the vouchers have destroyed public schools and have siphoned the money from taxpayers for questionable private for profit schools with no oversight or rules.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Betsy's brother scores a multi- million dollar contract on the 6th of February for his mercenary aircraft to monitor African countries. Sweet.
ReplyDeleteWar is hell. Very profitable hell.
http://thetruthserumblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/devos-brother-blackwater-erik-prince.html
Betsy "I can't remember that I am an officer in my mother's far right leaning foundation" cannot construct a sentence worth reading.
Let that be a lesson to you Lou Sarah.
Poor Lou Sarah.
DeleteAlways the bridesmaid...
Sarah's too moral for DC.
DeleteIs she worried about those California taxpayers who are hurting from the dam and weather?
ReplyDeleteUm, no one in this administration gives two shits about any blue state problems.
DeleteBetsy DeVos' comments (at the start of the post) make no sense at all. Like Trump himself, she is in way over her head. I'm not in favor or throwing life preservers to either of them.
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Proof of a LIAR>
ReplyDeletehttp://www.phillyvoice.com/penn-student-newspaper-debunks-trumps-claims-graduating-top-his-class/
http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton
Delete"“different from the rest of the class.”"
“Don ... was loath to really study much.”
"Pages from the 212th Commencement show President Donald Trump as a 1968 Wharton graduate, but that he graduated withOUT HONORs."
Betsy DeVos has no choice but to shitcan public school teachers. How else can she put them out of a job?
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ReplyDelete"Evan Ramsey's tattered life filled him with rage. Then he brought a shotgun to school."
" unlike how it sounded years ago in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. He is not looking for sympathy. He said he is speaking up to say how wrong he was and to help others, like school counselors, understand the rage that took hold." in 1986, his father>
was enraged over publisher Bob Atwood's refusal to print a ranting political ad. No one died, but he went to prison for 10 years."
"Hare, then the longtime Lower Kuskokwim School District superintendent, has been described as the foster mom but actually was legal guardian for Evan Ramsey and his younger brother, William. She did it for no money, which endeared her to Ramsey."
She was a single mom, adopting Yup'ik twins as she and her late husband had planned. He drowned trying to save a child, she said. Over the years, Hare took in other children who needed a temporary home."
"It sounds ridiculous now, even to him, but he says he thought he could shoot and no one would die, like in the "Doom" video game he played into the night. He remembers watching a television program in prison that referenced how the teen brain isn't fully developed, how teens aren't yet fully rational beings."Only in his mother's death did he realize the enormity of what he did, how he forever deprived those Bethel families of what was most dear."
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/02/18/evan-ramseys-tattered-life-filled-him-with-rage-then-he-brought-a-shotgun-to-school/
The petitions are still active on White House . gov.
ReplyDeleteThe one demanding Trump release his taxes is over a million signatures.
We could start a no-confidence one for DeVos demanding she resign, but of course, it would do no good. I doubt anyone in the administration is monitoring that site any more. They either haven't taken it down yet or are leaving it there as window dressing.
I had one of the most bigoted and least informed history teachers when I was in high school in TN. Told us that the civil war wasn't about slavery, it was states rights, blah blah and how MLK was such a troublemaker. He leered at us girls. Not every teacher belongs to that intelligent and informed camp.
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