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DeVos Critics’ Hypocrisy

Feb 8, 2017, 12:11 PM

“The basic reason I’ll oppose her nomination is that I don’t think she is committed to public education,” Senator Robert Casey (D., Pa.) declared about DeVos.

“Casey and his father are regarded as the most famous alumni of Scranton Preparatory School, a Catholic Jesuit preparatory day school in Pennsylvania,” the Daily Signal reported last month.

“Casey’s daughters, Caroline Casey and Julia Madeline, also attended Scranton Prep.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) announced that “I have received thousands of letters, calls, and emails in opposition to her nomination, many of them citing the school voucher and privatization agenda Mrs. DeVos and her allies imposed in Michigan.”

As WPRI reported, “The senator also questioned whether DeVos had ever entered a public school, drawing laughs from the supportive roundtable.”

Whitehouse is an alumnus of St. Paul’s School, a private boarding institution set on 2,000 bucolic acres in New Hampshire.

Whitehouse’s daughter, Molly, studied at Providence’s Wheeler School.

His son, Alexander, also attended a private boarding school

Whitehouse explained on the Senate floor in 2012 that he sent his kids to private campuses so that he could give them “the best education that I can for them, and I felt that, in their circumstances, the places that I chose to send them were the best schools for them.”

Senator Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) rose last night to attack DeVos on the Senate floor.

“Mrs. DeVos has shown no evidence of her commitment to be the torchbearer for both excellence and equity,” Bennet complained.

“And a commitment to competition without a commitment to equity would forsake our democratic ideal that a free, high-quality public education must open the doors of opportunity for all.”

But Bennet did not walk through those doors.

In fact, Bennet is a product of St. Albans, one of the most prestigious private schools in Washington, D.C.

His daughter attended Denver’s Logan School for Creative Learning, an exclusive private institution of learning.

Senate Democratic whip #### Durbin of Illinois also will oppose DeVos today.

“She is not committed to public education, which is our first obligation as a government,” Durbin told teachers unionists in Springfield on Saturday.

But during a March 2009 Senate debate on school choice in Washington, D.C., “Durbin, in turn, said he and his wife sent their kids out of the private system to get Catholic education,” Politico reported.

Durbin, himself, attended Assumption Catholic High School in East Saint Louis, Ill.

“Our children and families deserve better than a secretary of education who would work to gut our public school system,” Senator Maggie Hassan (D., N.H.) told the New Hampshire School Administrators Association yesterday.

Hassan’s husband, Tom, was a school administrator.

He was principal of the almost stereotypically highbrow Philips Exeter Academy, the Platonic form of American private education.

The Hassans’ daughter, Margaret, attended Exeter.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444683/betsy-devos-critics-hypocrisy-their-kids-attend-private-schools

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My son was having difficulty during his first year in middle school. The teachers and the principal were no help. They blamed my son. Let me repeat that. They blamed my son. We enrolled him into a Catholic school. You did not have to be Catholic to attend.

Let me tell you about this school. It was in an old building. There were no facilities other than a classroom. Every kid brought his own lunch, as did the teacher, and they all ate together in the classroom. Once a month, all of the kids had community service - on Saturday. There were no computers, or libraries, or gymnasiums, or study halls ... nothing but one classroom.

When my son entered public high school (the Catholic school went no higher than middle school) he was a year ahead of everyone else. He joined the Academic Team and the Debate Team. He graduated with honors, went to college, went to med school, and is now finishing up his residency. He did the work, but I credit that Catholic school with providing the right environment at the right time in his life.

If I had a choice, I would direct that ALL of my property tax dollars go to Catholic schools, because I know what they are doing.

DeVos Critics’ Hypocrisy

So none of their constituents attend public schools either?***

Ignore him. He just copies & pastes NR articles all day.***

Re: Well it is a "Do as I say not as I do" type of hypocracy

Their constituents?

So, where's the $20 billion coming from?

Do you remember that poster we had years ago

In other hypocrisy today

Uh, no. That would not be a comparable argument at all.***

Why not?

Give him a minute

That is not what the article is saying. It is about

That may be a valid point

Please. They are denying others of the very things they do.

As long as people can't use public funds to send their kids

So the gov't can't issue vouchers in your world?***

Where did you get that idea? No, I am all for vouchers...

Not sure why that should matter

Because the government shouldn't fund religion.

I think the government should help provide certain services

I do. I don't want the government to give any taxpayer...

You really don't understand. Let me give you an example.

You truly don't understand.

They did not teach "religion."***

Perfect. Then if it is not a school that promotes mass,..

You're imputing a point that wasn't being made there

wait

Sooooo...

That's it. We have no other choice.

Holler if you need gas money.

National Review has taken a hard dip in quality as of late.

It's actually been quite good at critiquing media excess

I suppose I should visit the site to get the Trump critiques

I don't usually post things I don't agree with. Do you?***

I did today.***

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