I don’t think it “says it all” but I agree it’s a disgrace. She should be allowed to do her job without being threatened.

Much as I think she shouldn’t have the job, I agree this way of protesting is completely wrong.

I’ve continued to post anti-DeVos cartoons online, especially on Twitter. However, I unreservedly condemn the physical stuff.

She shouldn’t be blocked from going to schools as happened earlier either.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/betsy-devos-is-now-being-guarded-by-us-marshals/2017/02/17/7dc341f4-f54b-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.060014e1b3ce

http://educationnext.org/the-7-billion-school-improvement-grant-program-greatest-failure-in-the-history-of-the-u-s-department-of-education/

No idea, but I’d assume it’s like you say – just getting a bit too close for comfort sometimes.

It’s another reason to worry about DeVos though. Her first instinct in solving the problem was to kill.

Do they actually have bears invading the school? Or just bears scavenging the trash cans? Somehow the latter appears more likely -and indeed no reason to shoot them, just relocating.

Trevor Noah’s show contacted the school she mentioned re grizzlies. They don’t have a gun. Apparently they find a fence and bear spray do the trick! Who knew? 😀

And then those grizzlies! WTF is she talking about?
(And if ever a wild animal runs amok -and we have a lot more wild animals here in S.A. than the US- one uses *darts*).
Will get myself another glass of pinot noir.

“Character and Virtue Development”? Sounds absolutely ghastly! I don’t trust Templeton either. Their version of scientific research is what’s going to appeal to people like DeVos and Trump, and with limited funds likely in future, they will dominate more.

Justice for the majority who are ill-served is precisely what we’re talking about. It is being delayed by special interests and the political hacks who kow-tow to them. Amazingly enough (and to his credit), even Obama acknowledged as much!

And American voters overwhelmingly support school choice:

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/poll-millennials-minorities-strongly-support-school-choice

TF is also pushing “positive psychology” in public and private schools, and in the workplace, which, in my estimation, is a very dangerous endeavor, with roots in religion and spirituality, and breeds a bunch of mindless happy sheeple — a fine tool for societal control, control of the masses. If one goes to the TF website, one can find lists of grants by category. One category is ominously titled “Character and Virtue Development.” https://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/core-funding-areas/character-virtue-development. And you know where they want to start this moral/religious indoctrination — in the schools — as early as possible. At the bottom of the page, there’s a link to the grants they’ve given in this category https://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/grant-search/results/taxonomy%3A7. Sure some seem benign, even beneficial, but when an organization or a person is so presumptuous as to decide it can define and shape the nation’s character and virtue, watch out. I know I’m not expressing myself very well (and also sometimes refer to TF in the singular and sometimes in the plural), but I am very wary of all this, and I think that DeVos and TF will be working hand-in-glove in Trumplestiltskin’s kleptocracy, just as the fundamentalist religionistas will be working with TF to Make America Religious Again. It’s all of a piece.