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Evangelist to Head Education

Postby Bart Stewart » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:23 pm

Trump has named televangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. to head a White House task force on reforming higher education in the United States. Presumably Falwell will be in charge of gittin' her dumbed down right.

He had been Trump's choice to be Secretary of Education, but declined. Falwell enthusiastically supports Betsy DeVos for that position.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jer ... s_20170201
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Postby scrmbldggs » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:43 pm

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/b ... presidents wrote:Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said on Sunday that he doesn't understand President Donald Trump's attack lambasting a "so-called" judge who blocked his executive order on immigration, noting: "We don’t have so-called presidents."

"I’ll be honest, I don’t understand language like that. We don’t have so-called judges. We don’t have so-called senators. We don’t have so-called presidents,"...

"We have people from three different branches of government who take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and it's important that we do better civics education for our kids," Sasse added...


Important to do better on education? Then, please, don't support DeVos.
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Postby Bart Stewart » Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:08 pm

Too late, she's in. And Jeff Sessions is the Attorney General.

I made a mistake with the subject line of this post. Falwell is not heading "Education," he is heading a task force on higher education. So, a creationist ultra-conservative fundamentalist theocrat (much like DeVos) is making recommendations to the president on higher education.

All I can say is we'll see what happens. There is a good chance that the Trump admin will go so crazy and come off the rails in such a big way that they will be in a position of limited power, or lame duck status. Frankly, I think anything could happen now.
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Re: Evangelist to Head Higher Education Reform Task Force

Postby scrmbldggs » Thu Feb 09, 2017 6:27 pm

Presidend Trump Univarsity?
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby scrmbldggs » Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:12 am

Is this spelled correctly?

http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/07/republican-introduces-bill-that-would-abolish-the-department-of-education/
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby Upton_O_Goode » Sat Feb 11, 2017 8:23 pm

Bart Stewart wrote:Too late, she's in. And Jeff Sessions is the Attorney General.



But, according to the HuffPost, her first day wasn't a good one for her:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bet ... a129e9bbba
"How do you teach events that defy knowledge, experiences that go beyond imagination? How do you tell children, big and small, that society could lose its mind and start murdering its own soul and its own future? How do you unveil horrors without offering at the same time some measure of hope? Hope in what? In whom? In progress, in science and literature and God?"

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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby TJrandom » Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:00 pm

The thread title is misleading... it should be `Education`....
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby Upton_O_Goode » Sat Feb 11, 2017 11:01 pm

TJrandom wrote:The thread title is misleading... it should be `Education`....



Or maybe "so-called education"???
"How do you teach events that defy knowledge, experiences that go beyond imagination? How do you tell children, big and small, that society could lose its mind and start murdering its own soul and its own future? How do you unveil horrors without offering at the same time some measure of hope? Hope in what? In whom? In progress, in science and literature and God?"

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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby OlegTheBatty » Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:36 pm

Upton_O_Goode wrote:
TJrandom wrote:The thread title is misleading... it should be `Education`....



Or maybe "so-called education"???


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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby Upton_O_Goode » Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:00 pm

OlegTheBatty wrote:
Upton_O_Goode wrote:
TJrandom wrote:The thread title is misleading... it should be `Education`....



Or maybe "so-called education"???


Televangelist to head off education?



Yeah, that would describe her accurately. Wherever she and her ilk are in charge, education doesn't have a chance of getting through.
"How do you teach events that defy knowledge, experiences that go beyond imagination? How do you tell children, big and small, that society could lose its mind and start murdering its own soul and its own future? How do you unveil horrors without offering at the same time some measure of hope? Hope in what? In whom? In progress, in science and literature and God?"

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Re: Evangelist to Behead Education

Postby scrmbldggs » Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:00 pm

:hmm: ?




Post updated- my deepest apologizes for the lately edit.


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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby JO 753 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:30 pm

TJrandom wrote:The thread title is misleading... it should be `Education`....


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Re: Evangelist to Behead Education

Postby scrmbldggs » Fri Feb 17, 2017 3:01 am

U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby TJrandom » Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:39 am

Erm... invest in education, or defund education... so Republicans?
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby scrmbldggs » Mon Mar 20, 2017 12:36 am

On education and religion and hypocrisy...

The Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now he’s troubled by Muslim prayers.
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Re: Evangelist to Head Education

Postby scrmbldggs » Sun May 20, 2018 12:01 am

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