Betsy Devos,
President-elect Trump's pick for secretary of education, may have proven
herself unprepared for the position after her confirmation hearing
Tuesday.
During the hearing
Tuesday, Devos seemed to show that she didn't have any prior knowledge of the
department that she was going to head. One of her long standing opinions
regarding education is her support of school choice, which seemed to sum up her
total experience with education as a whole.
Devos is not only one of the most wealthy members of
President-elect Trump’s cabinet, but she is also a well-known republican
activist in her home state of Michigan and she showed Tuesday that she either
doesn’t support or has no prior knowledge of the things that come with being
the secretary of education.
One of those things being student loans which the U.S.
has about $1.26 trillion dollars in student loan debt.
As a college student, it is scary to think that to
have some like Betsy Devos, who has no prior knowledge of basic education
terms, could be running the education system of the entire country. The United
States is low on the totem pole when it comes to education and if Tuesday night
is anything to go by, Betsy Devos might just put us down lower.
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