Okay now those images look exactly like the classrooms that I sat in while I attended elementary school way back in the 1960's.Does this look familiar? Students lined up in rows. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Sit down; don’t talk; eyes up front. Wait for the bell. Walk to the next class. Everything about our lives has moved beyond the industrial era. But American education largely hasn’t. #SXSWEDU pic.twitter.com/kyy2r7bTud— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED) March 6, 2018
However I also fairly recently worked in public schools and I know something that apparently Betsy DeVos, the actual Secretary of Education, does not.
Here let some real teachers do a little educating.
Don’t you know that stock photos aren’t real? How many classrooms have you visited in the past year? Classrooms don’t look like that anymore. Students don’t work like that anymore. I would think that as Sec of Edu you would be celebrating us, not putting us down. #Bye pic.twitter.com/GPDr1aS7vp— Teresa Hurtado (@MissHurtad0KISD) March 6, 2018
Ok, first of all, give Stock Photo teacher some credit, she has the whole class eager to share. (Her biggest problem, tbh, is the lack of decorations. Put a poster up on your stock photo walls!) Secondly, this is a real, public school classroom right here: pic.twitter.com/sU8hYnn7SY— PostMalonialism (@Mr_Orlopp) March 7, 2018
Damn teachers do not play when you insult the progress they have made in their teaching methods and classroom atmospheres.No. It doesn't look familiar. THIS is what public school looks like. pic.twitter.com/OYYrXvIRq2— LPG (@puckettgarcia) March 7, 2018
But this last tweet really put the nail in Miss Betsy's coffin.
Now THAT is the kind of burn which leaves a lasting mark right there.Meanwhile at the DeVos funded West Michigan Aviation School... pic.twitter.com/8Dutpd43iZ— Kristen Famiano (@kfam) March 6, 2018
So it appears that Trump's Education Secretary not only got school by the Parkland students, but our amazing public school teachers as well.
Good choice there Donnie!
Off topic, doesn’t Track‘s trial begin right about now? Or am I misremembering?
ReplyDeleteCheck out the latest pic of the daughters. For her age, Brissy looks gaunt and matronly. Gotta love those shit shakes! She should also stay out of bad lighting. The Leno chin! OMG.
DeleteHe'll skate with no real punishment once again. But next year at this time, after he murders Sarah and Todd at Xmas....now that will be the trial to watch.
Delete3:11 Justifiable Homicide
DeleteThe children in the picture on the right, sent by DeVos, were just asked “How many of you want Betsy DeVos to resign? Raise your hands.”
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ReplyDeleteMartin Shkreli got 7 years in prison for fraud. He's not smirking now.
"Martin Shrkeli, the smirking "Pharma Bro" vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pharma-bro-faces-high-stakes-sentencing-fraud-case-050300371--finance.html
Looks like he may have finally learned his lesson too.
"Shkreli, his cocky persona nowhere to be found, cried as he told U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto he made many mistakes and apologized to investors.
"I want the people who came here today to support me to understand one thing, the only person to blame for me being here today is me," he said. "I took down Martin Shkreli."
He said that he hopes to make amends and learn from his mistakes and apologized to his investors.
"I am terribly sorry I lost your trust," he said. "You deserve far better.""
Time will tell if Shkreli's change in attitude and behavior is temporary or life changing. If he's a narcissist it's all a show for the courts. If he's psychotic, schizophrenic or bipolar, maybe he'll get treatment in prison.
"He was also fined $75,000 and received credit for the roughly six months he has been in prison.
The judge ruled earlier this week that Shkreli would have to forfeit more than $7.3 million in a brokerage account and personal assets including his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that he boasted he bought for $2 million. The judge said the property would not be seized until Shkreli had a chance to appeal."
Onion in his pocket.
DeleteSomeday children will learn all about how your brother, Prince Erik, went to jail.
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DeleteDeVos is an idiot with money. This is to be expected. I would love to engage her in a debate but she is an ignorant coward. She has bizarre ideas based on the voices in her tiny mind. She never went to public school but thinks she is an expert on public schools. Brainless ninny.
ReplyDeleteWhy is DeVos upset? The kids in her current classroom photo appear to be white, as is the teacher. They all look affluent. Is it because the flag isn't shown? I just don't get her problem. It looks like a 'future young Republicans' meeting to me.
ReplyDeleteWow, DeVos's charter school is all pudgy white boys.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous1:20 PM: they would be fat, phat is a nicely shaped woman.
DeleteSpeaking of schooling, Stormy is teaching bone-stupid trolls out there a thing or two (including that Trump isn't married to his fekking *daughter*!) - she seems fearless as well as smart. I hope she does not let up:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/stormy-daniels-ridicules-pro-trump-troll-thinks-president-married-ivanka/
Trump made a big mistake there.
DeleteStormy is not a model, not an immigrant and not stupid.
If he thought he was going to bully or intimidate her, he was dead wrong.
I'm betting she had all of this planned the minute she saw he never signed the contract.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/nicolle-wallace-lists-three-key-reasons-stormy-daniels-credible-witness/
Delete"“One, she’s willing to give back the money to tell her story,” "“Two, her original account that in In Touch magazine humanized the president. She didn’t tell the story of any unpleasant encounter, she talked about Donald Trump as someone who was afraid of sharks,” Wallace reminded. “She talked about how he offered to help her on The Apprentice, she doesn’t tell a story of any sort of encounter gone awry.”
“And three, the encounter took place after he was married to Melania Trump, so, he is highly motivated, you can certainly understand his motive for keeping it quiet,” "
Yep, she's no dummy, and she's got grit (a Texan, and a horsewoman, if I'm not mistaken, so she's got guts). She's not gonna blink in *this* game of 'chicken'. She seems to have chosen a good lawyer. Better than that idiot ("Sez who?") Cohen.
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Delete"Cohen actually used his email address in the Trump Organization itself to make all the legal and payoff arrangements with Stormy Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford)."
Though he'd like to be.
DeleteEvangelicals are the stupidest, lowest people on the planet. The only thing smart about Trump is that he knows this. That's why he put them to use in his cocky little game of revenge.
ReplyDeleteIt was great of Trump to expose them for turning a blind eye to his infidelity and sexual harassment for political leverage. Shows it was never about the babble and scripture, it was control.
DeleteDeVos is like almost all Republicans, stupid gullible feebs. They think Fox et al. is news. Dumbest folks in the world. They vote for sociopathic oligarchs and then wonder why their lives get more miserable. Idiots to the core. But they have guns, and bibles, and flags. They love waving flags. I have interacted with so many of them in my corner of the universe. Without exception, they are ignorant and stupid. They lost it at sixth grade. They have no ability to discern reality. The oligarchs lead them around like puppy dogs. They are Trump voters. They luv the "claimed" billionaire who grabs women by the pussy. We have one of them here. The 'lol' ninny.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost convinced that the 'lol' ninny is ben off c4p. Talks the same way. I could be wrong and don't care if I am.
DeleteYou have pegged them to a T, 2:13 PM, that's exactly who they are. I know quite a few myself.
Sorry but that is what my kids middle school classes look like. OF course, I am in Idaho and I think we are number 49 in education.
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ReplyDeleteMiller said tariffs will also force NLMK to shelve planned $600 million investments in plants in Pennsylvania and Indiana, around $400 million of which was earmarked for upgrading antiquated equipment at its Farrell plant.
Trump has stood by the tariffs, despite resistance from his fellow Republicans and other countries, which have vowed to respond with levies of their own. On Thursday, Trump pressed ahead with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel imports and 10 percent for aluminum."
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/09/trump-steel-tariffs-may-leave-these-u-s-steelworkers-jobless.html
I've gotta tell you Gryphen I learned a heck of a lot in classrooms that looked exactly like the stock photo. I had wonderful, dedicated teachers, that could take a small classroom( never in a class over 17) and could meet all of our individual needs. Free public education rocks!!
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/09/u-s-education-secretary-betsy-devos-says-states-should-arm-teachers-as-a-way-to-protect-schools.html
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/09/editorial-cartoon-no-assault-rifle-ban.html
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/09/nra-files-federal-lawsuit-challenging-florida-gun-safety-bill.html
'The National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to overturn a new Florida law that imposes a 21-year-old age limit and three-day waiting period on all gun purchases, saying the move violated Americans' constitutional rights.'
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Go Pee:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/gop-state-reps-gets-restraining-order-fellow-republican-pulling-gun/
SFO: "A military veteran who had been treated for combat stress burst into the Yountville veterans home on Friday armed with a rifle, killed three women and then fatally shot himself, authorities said."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Active-shooter-reported-at-Yountville-veterans-12741622.php
MOM "“If I don’t get my phone back, I’m going to come back and shoot up the school!” Smalls allegedly claimed. “No child is safe because what happened in Texas and Florida is going to happen here!”"The same day a couple of miles away, a student at a Bronx Catholic high school posted online threats to “shoot up the school,” police said.
ReplyDeleteCarlos Pastor, 16, was arrested for allegedly posting the message on Mount Saint Michael Academy’s Instagram page. He was charged with aggravated harassment."
https://nypost.com/2018/03/09/mom-accused-of-threatening-school-shooting-after-losing-phone-at-front-desk/
wasn't she entirely homeschooled? and she's a billionaire? what does she know abuot public schools? or public school children? or their needs?
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