National Education Association: More than 1 mil. emails sent to senators urging a vote against DeVos - Polidicks

[Quote] Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s nominee for education secretary. More than 40,000 people have called senators using a hotline the union set up to access the switchboard at the U.S. Capitol, NEA officials said. NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said the union did not pay for advertisements, instead using its ordinary advocacy channels — such as emails to members and social media posts — to encourage people to contact their senators. She said the response surprised and gratified her. “It’s just amazing,” Eskelsen Garcia said. “We couldn’t generate this if it weren’t authentic, if it weren’t something legitimately and authentically viral.” The pace of calls and emails about DeVos surpasses any previous NEA campaign, union officials said: In all of 2015, efforts to get teachers to contact Congress about the Every Student Succeeds Act — a sweeping new federal education law that affects every public school in the nation — generated a total of 284,000 emails, they said. [/Quote] [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/01/26/national-education-association-more-than-1-million-emails-sent-to-senators-urging-a-vote-against-devos/"]The Washington Post[/URL]

Uneducated voters got them this far, why would they stop? This country is all aboard the anti-intellectual train currently and it's fucked generations as a result for their own gains. It's disgusting.

[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51730891]Uneducated voters got them this far, why would they stop? This country is all aboard the anti-intellectual train currently and it's fucked generations as a result for their own gains. It's disgusting.[/QUOTE] Anti intellectual ism has been a part and core of american culture for a long time.

[QUOTE=Guriosity;51730951]Anti intellectual ism has been a part and core of american culture for a long time.[/QUOTE] Unfortunately true, but not to this extent.

[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51730891]Uneducated voters got them this far, why would they stop? This country is all aboard the anti-intellectual train currently and it's fucked generations as a result for their own gains. It's disgusting.[/QUOTE] I'm confused though, this is them urging a vote against devos. Isn't she one of the nominees that has no idea what she's doing or am I thinking of someone else?

She has no idea what she's doing AND I'd a bad person on top of that.

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;51731071]She has no idea what she's doing AND I'd a bad person on top of that.[/QUOTE] So this is a good thing, right? Or am I missing something? Just seemed like people earlier in the thread were bemoaning the article.

Oh it's the woman who advocated the use of guns in schools to defend against grizzlies.

[QUOTE=froztshock;51730967]I'm confused though, this is them urging a vote against devos. Isn't she one of the nominees that has no idea what she's doing or am I thinking of someone else?[/QUOTE] shes basically built a career on the belief that we should not have free quality education, and now is incharge of our free quality education.

After watching that confirmation hearing I was seriously disgusted by some of her answers such as allowing states to decide whether or not to enforce the Individuals with Disabilities Edcuation Act. I have a disabled sister and live in Florida, so I'm sure you can understand where I'm coming from.

[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;51730959]Unfortunately true, but not to this extent.[/QUOTE] I heard in some cultures to be one of the cool kids during school is work towards being a doctor, good grades and what. That's not here.

It was the most cringeworthy appointment hearing I've seen in years. Totally putting aside politics she seems really unprepared for the position Trump wanted her in.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;51732147]It was the most cringeworthy appointment hearing I've seen in years. Totally putting aside politics she seems really unprepared for the position Trump wanted her in.[/QUOTE] Sounds perfect for what he wanted

[QUOTE=Raidyr;51732147]It was the most cringeworthy appointment hearing I've seen in years. Totally putting aside politics she seems really unprepared for the position Trump wanted her in.[/QUOTE] So...basically everyone Trump has appointed to a government position?