How do these kids have a chance?

[Bob_Church 7]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/connecticut-parents-pull-kids-school-ivanka-trump-visits-article-1.3709675


The parents don't like Trump. Ok, no problem. But they're upset that they didn't have a chance to pull their kids from school before a visit from his daughter. Think about that. It's mind boggling and yet not at all surprising anymore.

[wmw999 2,121]

This. And then some of them will complain about the whole "safe space" thing, just like right-wing evangelicals who don't want their kids to hear anything about sex, and their complaints about the "safe space" thing.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Bob_Church 7]

wmw999

This. And then some of them will complain about the whole "safe space" thing, just like right-wing evangelicals who don't want their kids to hear anything about sex, and their complaints about the "safe space" thing.

Wendy P.

Absolutely. Neither side has a monopoly on intolerance and self-imposed ignorance anymore.

[jclalor 12]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/connecticut-parents-pull-kids-school-ivanka-trump-visits-article-1.3709675

[nolhtairt 0]

Those parents are fucking idiots.

[skinnay 0]

Bob_Church

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/connecticut-parents-pull-kids-school-ivanka-trump-visits-article-1.3709675


The parents don't like Trump. Ok, no problem. But they're upset that they didn't have a chance to pull their kids from school before a visit from his daughter. Think about that. It's mind boggling and yet not at all surprising anymore.

I'm sure the kids will be fine, it's not like they live in poverty in Alabama or something, LOL

[Bob_Church 7]

What's really disturbing is how much today's so-called Left resembles the old fire and brimstone Bible Thumpers.

[wmw999 2,121]

Because extremists are extremists. It's only the lenses on the glasses through which they see everything that differs.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Phil1111 910]

While under a trump administration they certainly don't.

1. President Trump's Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/22/529534031/president-trumps-budget-proposal-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-education

2. Final Tax Bill Cuts State and Local Deductions
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/12/gop_tax_bill_teacher_deduction_deductions_state_local_deductions.html
Reducing the amount of state and local taxes people can deduct could exert significant pressure on some states and communities to reduce their own taxes, and therefore reduce revenue available for funding for schools. We discussed this on a recent episode of Education Writers Association radio.

"We lost a policy fight. Our schools and students lose more," said Noelle Ellerson Ng, the associate executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, which along with other state and local groups sought to keep the current deductibility of state and local taxes.

3.Unqualified and Dangerous
Betsy DeVos is uniquely unprepared to run the U.S. Education Department.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/articles/2017-02-07/5-reasons-to-reject-donald-trumps-education-pick-betsy-devos

4. The Significance of Betsy DeVos's Speech in Baltimore
The education secretary, who’s been accused of wanting to privatize public education, gave a university commencement speech in a city whose district schools are struggling to stay afloat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/12/betsy-devos-goes-to-baltimore/548963/

5.Betsy DeVos limits debt relief for defrauded students
Some students who were defrauded by their colleges will no longer be granted full debt relief.

Instead they will receive partial debt relief based on their income, the Department of Education said Wednesday
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/pf/college/devos-borrower-defense-debt-relief/index.html

6.First by For-Profit College, Now 'Screwed' by DeVos as Trump's DOE Rolls Back Debt Relief for Defrauded Students
While saying "no fraud is acceptable" in one breath, DeVos announces government will continue demanding debt payments from defrauded students...

The Corinthian Colleges chain was shut down in 2015, weeks after Obama's Education Department slapped the business with a $30 million fine for inflating students' job placement rates.

An estimated 20,000 former Corinthian students with pending claims against the school will be affected by DeVos's deicsion.

DeVos's proposals for changing student loan forgiveness programs have come under attack this year, with critics noting that the secretary has held investments in a student loan collection ageny and hired the CEO of a private student loan company to head the Office of Federal Student Aid.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/21/first-profit-college-now-screwed-devos-trumps-doe-rolls-back-debt-relief-defrauded


The above is of particular interest. because it was trump himself that defrauded students in his infamous "trump university".
Judge approves $25 million settlement of Trump University lawsuit
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-university-lawsuit-settlement-233772
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-university-lawsuit-must-pay-approved-payment-a7661026.html

No Sir, you are the bible thumper. Hobbling children with someone so unqualified, politically biased and devoted to republicans, as DeVos. Rather than education. Cutting the states ability to fund schools in order to prepare them for future jobs. That will require good fundamentals in quality education. Is short sighted.

Beyond that the Ivanka has never, never and not once. Voiced dissent with her father on the aforementioned education issues.

Finally it will be the uneducated and poorly educated children that will be forced to pay off the Chinese Billions in debt. That the latest trump tax bill will dump in their laps.