If you are or have been a teacher:

STOP AND LISTEN UP

Besty Devos will Destroy Public Education

The most dangerous person to confront the public classroom teacher is Elisabeth “Betsy” DeVos, an American billionaire, businesswoman, philanthropist, and education activist from Michigan. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice, voucher programs, and ties to the Reformed Christian community. The closest that DeVos has come to public education was attending Holland Christian High School where their educational mission is to, “Equip minds and nurture hearts to transform the world for Jesus Christ.”

DeVos is convinced that God has placed her great wealth at her feet for the purpose of bringing down the lies of public education and replacing them with God’s truth. Here are a few of those lies:

• Big Bang   ~   (Christian school will teach God created everything in seven days)
• The universe is 14 billion years old.   ~    (It is only six thousand years old)
• Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.   ~    (Jesus rode dinosaurs)
• The flood of Noah was not world-wide.    ~   (Was so)
• Life formed on earth over millions of years. The process is called evolution.  ~(Creationism)
• Women didn’t come from an old extra rib of some guy named Adam.   ~    (women are man ribs)
• Math: A tool that is useful because it seems to work in manipulating the natural world   ~    (A reflection of the mind of an orderly God)
• English: Literature must be representative of all cultures, which are seen as having equal value, and has no inherent meaning   ~    (Literature is appreciated as a demonstration of common grace and interpreted in the light of God’s Word)
•  Teachers: Varied backgrounds Christianity or some other religion, humanism, atheism; may be straight or gay    ~   (Born-again, committed believers seeking to model Christ before their students – no gays, atheists or fatties need apply)
• Peers: Varied religious backgrounds, often receiving little moral instruction or values at home or church   ~    (Students from Christian homes who are there because their parents support Christian values – oh, and they have whiter whites and brighter brights)
• Science: Naturalism – everything comes from matter, time, and natural selection (God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things; science involves knowing God through knowing His world)
• History: Controlled either by autonomous man or by an impersonal process (Controlled by an omnipotent God who knows the end from the beginning – so, just sit back and watch God control everything)

The Christian Educators Association International, an organization that sees the nation’s public schools as “the largest single mission field in America,” aims to show Christian teachers how to live their faith — and evangelize in public schools. They don’t seem to care about teaching but about saving souls. I thought we had churches for that and public schools for education’

I AM BEGGING YOU TO WRITE A LETTER, CALL or EMAIL  YOUR DEMOCRATIC OR  REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND DEMAND THAT

BETSY DEVOS NOT BE CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.

Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Appointments Clause, empowers the President of the United States to appoint certain public officials with the “advice and consent” of the U.S. Senate. All Cabinet members are nominated by the President and then presented to the Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority (although, before use of the nuclear option during the 113th US Congress, they could have been blocked by filibuster, requiring cloture to be invoked by 3/5 supermajority to further consideration) *cloture is a procedure for ending the debate and taking a vote.

The Senate is poised to vote on her confirmation on Tuesday, January 17.

And that is my impassioned View from The Hill.