Betsy Devos Education Secretary Senate Confirmation 1/17/2017

[Dusty Bake Activate]

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Education in 2001 described her work in promoting school choice as trying to “advance God’s Kingdom,” according to audio discovered by Politico.



During a 2001 meeting of “The Gathering,” an annual summit for wealthy Christians, Betsy DeVos and her husband dikk DeVos were interviewed on stage about their work promoting the use of government funds on private and religious schools.
Betsy DeVos likened her work to the battles in the biblical region known as Shephelah, where David and Goliath were said to have fought.

“Our desire is to be in that Shephelah, and to confront the culture in which we all live today in ways that will continue to help advance God’s Kingdom, but not to stay in our own faith territory,” she said.

The DeVoses were explaining that they believe there will be a better payoff in the long run if they try to change the education system, rather than use their billions to finance Christian nonprofits.

"It goes back to what I mentioned, the concept of really being active in the Shephelah of our culture — to impact our culture in ways that are not the traditional funding-the-Christian-organization route, but that really may have greater Kingdom gain in the long run by changing the way we approach things — in this case, the system of education in the country," she added later.

During the interview, DeVos was asked if she wanted to “destroy our public schools.”

"No, we are for good education, and for having every child have an opportunity for good education," she responded.

“We both believe that competition and choices make everyone better and that ultimately if the system that prevails in the United States today had more competition — there were more choices for people to make freely — that all of the schools would become better as a result."

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Trump education pick once touted school reform to 'advance God's Kingdom'

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

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[88m3]

religion = mental illness

 

[FAH1223]

A lot of this forum wasn't really paying attention during the Bush years. Too young, apathetic, etc.

Obama spoiled you all.

You all clowned us for our practical liberalism and our tempered commentary on politics, social issues, and ominous threats about selecting the best policy, not your favorite policy.

Now you all will learn what we tried to warn about about.

This next 4-8 years will change your lives, because you all refused to listen

Obama ran as a progressive populist.

 

[the cac mamba]

A lot of this forum wasn't really paying attention during the Bush years. Too young, apathetic, etc.

Obama spoiled you all.

You all clowned us for our practical liberalism and our tempered commentary on politics, social issues, and ominous threats about selecting the best policy, not your favorite policy.

Now you all will learn what we tried to warn about about.

This next 4-8 years will change your lives, because you all refused to listen

at this thinly-veiled bullshyt. insert "i wanted you to vote for hillary, but you didnt "

nah. WE tried warning YOU. that she was a loser who didnt have what it took. not in 08, and not this year. i bet you cant even admit that you'd rather have bernie be president than trump

so you know why trump is president? it's your fault

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

at this thinly-veiled bullshyt. insert "i wanted you to vote for hillary, but you didnt "

nah. WE tried warning YOU. that she was a loser who didnt have what it took. not in 08, and not this year. i bet you cant even admit that you'd rather have bernie be president than trump

so you know why trump is president? it's your fault

Bernie is unfit to be POTUS

 

[FAH1223]

Bernie is unfit to be POTUS

And you think Trump is a better fit

 

[nyknick]

Atleast Napoleon is still fighting a good fight, 88m3 has been very low energy ever since Hillary's online troll fund dried up up.

 

[Serious]

 

[DynamoEAR]

religion = mental illness

 

[Eddy Gordo]

Bernie is unfit to be POTUS

This kind of thinking is the exact reason HRC lost.

 

[theworldismine13]

it doesnt matter what her motivation is, as long as she agrees that the public school system should be destroyed, its good

 

[无名的]

A lot of this forum wasn't really paying attention during the Bush years. Too young, apathetic, etc.

Obama spoiled you all.

You all clowned us for our practical liberalism and our tempered commentary on politics, social issues, and ominous threats about selecting the best policy, not your favorite policy.

Now you all will learn what we tried to warn about about.

This next 4-8 years will change your lives, because you all refused to listen

Your god complex is terrifying.

 

[The American]

TheRootsCrew is right, tho. nikkas here too young to remember GWB, who was a disaster. trump finna be 100x worse than that.

 

[Jhoon]

Let's see. Compromise on your integrity for a candidate who was going to lose anyway?