And she lauded President Ronald Reagan’s “purpose and principle” in fighting successfully to tear down the Berlin Wall.“While that wall was reduced to rubble, there’s another kind of wall that needs tearing down today,” DeVos said at the gathering at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif. “This wall is just as old and just as devastating to those who — through no fault of their own — happen to live on the wrong side.
Families who aren’t wealthy “have about as much education freedom in America today as East Germans had freedom to do anything back then,” she said.
Why doesn’t DeVos just keep her mouth shut. I see why trump named her She’s a billionaire and she is just as stupid as trump
Wacky, stupid, secretary out to destroy our public schools for personal profit.
It's not choice if they can turn kids away for any reason & decide not to accept them. Public schools invite everyone to the table. No one can be turned away. Charters can pick & choose. PublicEducation is democracy in action. We need to invest in it & stop diverting $ from it.
This coming from the worst secretary of education who wants to divert public funds from public school systems to religious schools. Our future is being destroyed by her and her policies.
She is so far removed from the average American’s reality-she might actually believe her own bs. 🙄
I'll bet people in wealthy areas who pay their school tax will not settle for disadvantaged students “invading” their turf.
One of the most destructive members of cabinet BUT also overshadowed by the others. Terrible agenda making changes that will have lasting negative impact.
Trump chose her...what did you exp ct
She just wants to defund all public schools and give the money to church schools. Her idea of freedom is shredding the first amendment
Manipulating concepts she has not understood.
BeBest Billionaires, huh?
Amazing and ridiculous comparison
How is it possible to be so hopelesslyignorant and noxious and still not withdraw from public life?
I understand what she was trying to say but she used a bad analogy. She’s not very bright.
Is this a joke
One of Trumps great people!
Pity she chose tyranny over freedom.
Amoral, soulless abomination.
Get her outta there
And.....
Trump, Pence, DeVos, Barr, huckabee Sanders, Mnuchin, Carson, Mulvaney, Bolton, kushner, McConnell... These are the liars, the incompetents, the substandards, the politically deficient partial list of ignoramus chosen ones working for YOU. Make America Great again !
She bought this job to destroy public schools
What a nut job !
Just what does that mean?
How is it that DeVos is still Secretary of Education? Name one thing she has done for students or teachers since she came into office. Just name one thing!
The Trump Administration is nothing but ignorant fools associated with each other
What
She’s right.
They don’t have much school choice in ‘West’ Germany either, nor in Singapore. And the Ed is pretty good...
She continues to regurg so much gross bile. Furthermore, Pipe John Paul I had everything to do with the wall. Get your facts straight.
It’s like she can’t help herself. DeVos is ignorant to the core.
Devos is a joke and fraud. Tar and feathers would be the perfect way to send her out!
Did she ever go to classes during college?
Steph56Renee Please let me meet her in front of the White House - woman to woman - and settle this crap once and for all .....
She's right. A little over the top but right. Why does the left have a problem with school choice. It makes absolutely no sense to me.
Betsy: Your ignorance is showing perhaps because you didn’t go to a public school.
Why is anyone listening to this swamp thing?
Wow 😳
and she belongs in jail
East German public education was clearly superior to American education, public or private. Betsy Devos has sold out the American public education system to line her pockets. Her only concern is school choice, if you can afford it. Why fix our schools when we can skirt around it.
So, we need a wall to keep the poor from mixing with the wealthy?
She is simply horrible and needs to go. She is still here, because she stays under Trump's radar, since he couldn't care less about education.
If you're a disadvantaged youth stuck in a terrible, failing government school and you have no way of escaping to a better school somewhere else, you won't receive a quality education, further disadvantaging you for adulthood. SchoolChoice governmentschools
By choice you mean attending all white school only?
The rationale of an ignoramus.
Stupid words from a stupid woman. Perfect example of ‘the best’ that trump picks for administration. If Betsy is the best donnie can do, it says a lot about his abilities too! Uh, does Betsy subscribe to Melena’s ‘Be Best’ promotion?She’d be doing well to ‘Barely Getting By’.
It is pretty obvious that kids who live in poorer neighborhoods are relegated to the crappy schools in that neighborhood. This is educational segregation, people! That is what DeVos is saying.
Translation? If you’re poor then you don’t need an education ! Keep the common people out of the “elite” classes !
It’s crazy that an 18 year old can get approved for a $200,000 student loan but the same 18 year can get a $20,000 business loan. This country is fucked!
Why is she still there? Why?
Reminds me of the times I met track coaches who never participated in track or field. Or maybe more appropo, an orchestra conductor who never played in an orchestra. Trump's camp is full of amateurs.
Where are those grizzly bears when you need them?
LOCK HER UP🤯❗️ Crime? Stupidity-DISGUSTING realDonaldTrump BetsyDeVosED GOP ProudResister MalcolmNance FoxNews washingtonpost
ANNULdon'tIMPEACh Get rid of them all!!!!
Well, let's see. We could have one school where only the select few can attend and fund the thing with tax $$s. OR, we could let schools doing well on their own alone, and work to bring the others up to a level playing field.
She's a deatheater.
Betsy DeVos should be fired. She does not understand nor care about education.
🙄
How can one woman be so stupid?
Any chance she’d like to talk to her boss about funding public education like the military is funded? Then this whole topic would be moot.
Here it comes...her push for vouchers to destroy the public school system in the entire USA like she did in Michigan. She sees dollar 💵 signs for her business. Get. Her. Out. Now!
Billionaire dummies are ruining the country, part 1532567
Well, she’s just nuts, but who’s shocked?
What?
Does realDonaldTrump believe that surrounding himself with idiots like Betsy Devos will make him look good by comparison? Interesting strategy...
Good schools in every neighborhood! No oppression in that!
Devos is the biggest hypocritical idiot that trump has put in a position of power
What a dumb response that’s seems fitting considering
This woman is a freaking idiot. Her lack of knowledge of ANYTHING is astounding. And yet, there she is - deciding educational policies. Thanks, Chumpie, for your really bad nomination....
Resign Betsy. Just resign.
BetsyDeVosED...
We ought not fund private schools any more than we find private roads, private armies, private police, etc. Having public systems does not make America weak.
Nope. Resign. You’re a joke.
I'm starting to understand why the Puritans were chased put of Europe.
Remember, Democrats are the bussing party. They are the ones who that make you go to school in Siberia, even as there’s a school across the street.
She seems nice.
Clueless!
And that was a lie.
That’s amazing!! I love living in a place that’s just as good as an Eastern bloc communist country!!!
Please get rid of this imbecile from serving as Education Secretary. It is evident her thinking is screwed completely!
This woman must suffer from foot-in-mouth disease because unlike her, many of the graduating students don’t have the means to go to the college of their choice. Unless they get a free ride for four years, they will have to have other means to earn the funds for college.
What would she know about East Germany? It seems the past of that state is where Trump is taking America.
DeVos is probably unaware of the irony in her words: those without the means will have no choice but to go to the schools left behind by those who have the means. Dickens could have used her & others in this administration to write a novel on how the haves exploit the have nots.
WTH kind of statement is this?
Not true!!
Bet they’re throwing alumni parties, huh?
mamaskullx3 Betsy DeVos yesterday morning: 'Alexa, what are schools?'
Sounds about right. Why only government run education?
And so what is her solution? Not much unless it's something she and her family owns....
I wish she would die already
Putin thinks she’s doing a good job.
A_malabuu_life Another ignorant comment from Betsy Devos (Trumps sycophant) 🙄
She's a special brand of dangerous stupidity
The face of fascism.
Could this woman be any srupider?
She's a Nazi. She equates things to what she knows and understands, which is limited to being a Nazi.
Well Ms. DeVos, since I believe in women's equality, I'll reply with a phrase my father used with people, who didn't know what they're talking about; 'Your ass is sucking wind!' My friend lived under Hitler AND Communism! There's NO FUCKING COMPARISON!
Well we are not in East Germany so Do Your Job
Bumbling Betsy's does it again.
What drugs does this woman do?
So much going on with this headline. And so much stupidity. 🤦
JUST SAY NO TO F!LTHY SYCOPHANTS
Must of missed that lesson in college...
Add her to the list of future removals...
Jesus Christ
She's vile.
Betsy DeVos probably has a coat made of Dalmatians somewhere
And...then what .....
I see she's another Dunning-Kruger sufferer.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said today that students who lack the means to pay off the student loans for the schools of their choice enjoy as much freedom as those in East Germany had under communist rule
She profits from Charters so of course she spews self-promoting propaganda. And no one does a thing about her other than “strong words.”
Betsy devos is AIDS to eduction in America. Her family is AIDS to America in general so it’s not a surprise.
Why am I not surprised that she got even that wrong? 🤔 In a nutshell: Your choice of schools in West Germany was/is still largely limited to PUBLIC schools. There's hardly anything else before leaving primary school.
And pay no attention to the STASI informers in your school...or life.
How would this bitch know?
There is something about having 10 yachts that makes people lose their perspective.
Right now CA public schools are teaching elementary school children about being gay and transgender. You can't opt out. We need school choice.
And what is Betsy doing to help such students? Zero
And that’s a good thing?
Betsy is the best argument against the American Education System.
In other words, vouchers are the cure.🤦♂️🤦♂️
Sounds like DeVos needs education.
Devos is a liar.
Maybe her family would like to back more scholarships? Is that what she is suggesting?
Well with trump in charge, barr not representing american people and betsy at the helm of education, America is turning into 1925 Germany
*hisses*
What is it with Republicans and Germany?
Oy
Onward Christian Soldiers
Donald Trump must love Eastern Germany, they built a wall...
Dangerously stupid.
WTH?
FU DeVos
If brains were trains Betsy's been hitchhiking for years.
If only her own education weren't so poor, then she could come up with less idiotic analogies
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