Is the sky falling? We may never actually know. Trump’s recent decisions are clearly designed to prevent the public from ever finding out.
Secretary of Education Pick Betsy DeVos May Be a Disaster for Church/State Separation
“More pressing … is the question of whether parents who want to send their kids to a private religious school would be given taxpayer dollars to do so. There’s reason to believe she’ll want to make that an option, laws be damned. DeVos grew up in a Religious Right-loving home and gave money to organizations working to push Christian beliefs through the government. […] Her husband Dick DeVos, a former candidate for governor of Michigan and heir to the Amway fortune, has also backed Intelligent Design,”
Meet Trump’s Pick To Dismantle EPA
Ebell is a ready match for Trump’s climate denial. As part of a 1998 team that included Exxon and other top polluting companies, Ebell put together a communications plan to “undercut the ‘prevailing scientific wisdom’†and convince the American public that climate science was uncertain. The plan identified the American Petroleum Institute, the National Mining Association and other industry trade associations as target funding sources.
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.
This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena.
I think that the incoming administration is going to prove a scientific and intellectual disaster for our country. Those of us, who seek educational equality with the rest of the world for our students, should be gravely concerned.
DeVos is a corrupt billionaire, what are her education qualifications? she doesn’t have any. She’s had no training in education, she did not attend public school, her kids didn’t attend public schools, and she’s been a crusader for vouchers which do not work. For her, vouchers are simply a means to an end: the demolition of the public school system. The DeVoses can afford the best private schools, and if you can’t, you deserve to be uneducated. Keep the masses dumb is her motto.
Of possible grim-laughter value: Why Donald Trump’s Far Right Base Is Surprisingly Up in Arms Over His Pick for Education Secretary.
Spoiler: They think DeVos backs the Common Core curriculum (I’ve seen a reproduced tweet from her saying otherwise; have no idea where the truth, if any, may lie).
Here’s a little more background on Battlin’ Betsy: Meet the DeVos family — super-wealthy right-wingers working with the religious right to destroy public education.
Gotta pass along one more: Think tank funded by Trump’s Education Secretary pick advocated bringing back child labor.
Let’s make no mistake: science education, and perhaps science funding, is likely to take a serious hit under a Trump administration. Read this thoughtful independent report by Heather Hastie
http://www.heatherhastie.com/usa-education-system-set-fail/
It’s hard to believe Trump would pick anyone pro-common core. But who knows. Look who is running for DNC chair with the support of Bernie, Elisabeth Warren & Dirty Harry. Keith Ellison an African American Muslim with ties to the Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism. He once proposed a separate country within the US for blacks. Another nut. You would think we might have a little peace with Obama and the Clinton crime family moving on, but I guess not.
Having a hard time staying on topic, Chris?
They have meds for that these days.
Pierce-Off topic, probable no more than your reflections from the Math and Science trend study. But you’ve got to admit the whole post was about unfavorable selections Trump has made for his new administration. While there is much concern over the fallout from the possible coming changes in education, it’s funny to note what is valued as concerns between the two camps. Conservatives have got to be boring with concern over morality. freedom, liberty, jobs, security etc. On the other hand liberalism is far more entertaining with liberal human rights, that are not rights if there not liberal. In the past spending other peoples money might have been the hallmark of liberalism. But today liberals have the right to burn police cars if they can’t pee in the bathroom of their choice. And after reading the bill just signed by Liberal Governor Jerry Brown attempting to regulate the devastating effects of cow farts, I fell like my comments were right on target to “Is The Sky Falling.â€
Chris: But you’ve got to admit the whole post was about unfavorable selections Trump has made for his new administration.
And you think rambling about someone not at all part of that process is on topic?
But today liberals have the right to burn police cars if they can’t pee in the bathroom of their choice.
Lies based on sheer fantasy – that at least does have some relevance to Trump & his choices.
… after reading the bill just signed by Liberal Governor Jerry Brown attempting to regulate the devastating effects of cow farts, I fell like my comments were right on target to “Is The Sky Falling.â€
I strongly suspect you did not read the bill itself at all, and your disregard of established science and global warming is duly noted. But I want to know how you “fell” when you started from rock bottom in a deep hole of ignorance.
Pierce, you’ve got me all wrong. I’m in! Al Gore’s net worth went from around a measly one or two million in 2000 to over one hundred and seventy million in 2015. I’ve decided to sell tax credits myself just like Al did and save the planet. I won’t need a jet right away, I’m a little conservative, I was thinking more of a hot air ballon. By using the same technology as Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology we could copy the back pack they’ve developed for cows and sell them to suicide bombers. I know it would take a little longer to fill the back pack than a cow, but it’s all crap anyway and the bang would be glorious. Not only would the cost of methane be less the dynamite or C-4 it’s lighter than air giving the bomber that lofty sensation just before the blast. I’m printing your certificate as we speak.
http://intainforma.inta.gov.ar/?p=19084
Chris, have you ever aspired to take part in an intelligent discussion where your contribution made a positive difference?
If so, please start over – or give it up entirely.