I haven't written about Betsy Devos before and I feel bad about that.  Maybe if I were a parent I'd feel more passionately about the Secretary of Education job,

Maybe I will be one day? Even if I'm not, if the latest election has proven anything it's that we are in big trouble if our society is poorly educated.

So before you finish reading this rant, stop what you're doing and call the Congressional Switchboard  and ask for your Republican Senator (call twice if you have two, or if you have a squishy Joe Manchin kind of Democrat. Fortunately my Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto is strongly against her)

The number is 202-224-3121

This is a woman who is in the position she is in because she owns a piece of the Republican Party. Especially in Michigan but also across the country.

I don't oppose someone just because they're rich, it's not even that she's a Republican donor that bothers me that much. It's what she's done with her money that bothers me and that's to campaign to gut Public Schools (of which she would be in charge of).

The name of her game is privatization, something scared white people have been advocating for since Brown va. The Board of Education. Keep OUR kids away from the scary minority kids. Create vouchers that can be spent on private schools that pick and choose who they want to accept, many of whom are more interested in religious indoctrination than teaching science and history.

In return what happens? Less people attending public schools in poor or mixed neighborhoods means less Property Tax Base to draw from means Public Schools fall apart, means the kids still attending them receive a lesser education and are discriminated against for College Admissions and the Job Market.

She has no experience with Public Schools. Her agenda is evangelical and I have no reason to believe that she wouldn't try to push that agenda on the nations schools. Anyone familiar with the Texas School Board and their horrid influence over the Nation's textbooks should be horrified to see someone who would fit right in on that board running the Department of Education.

I want an egghead bookworm who went to Harvard running the Education department to be blunt.  I know it's too much to ask to ask Trump to nominate Obama for the job though but could he at least nominate someone who's been a Superintendent or a Principal or a Teacher in a public school somewhere or something?

Come on Donald, you're like a really smart person, you can't come up with someone better?

Anyway, stop reading me and go make a phone call. 202-224-3121