Anyone read Cynthia Tucker's column on DeVos this week? This excerpt should be scary to almost anyone, liberal or otherwise:
DeVos, a billionaire...[is]a member of an ultraconservative Calvinist sect that believes in “predestination” — God has already decided who is going to heaven before we are born — and worships private enterprise. Speaking to The Gathering, an annual meeting of super-wealthy conservative Christians in 2001, DeVos compared “the system of education in the country” to a biblical battlefield where Israelites fought the Philistines, according to Politico.
In other words, she means to push vouchers, which would starve public schools of desperately needed funds, to advance her right-wing religious views. Nothing is more dangerous to liberal democratic values than that.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/opinion/column/cynthia-tucker-devos-sees-public-education-as-biblical-battlefield/article_33f57964-ed6e-5ebf-b4d8-ff44d85b656f.html
DeVos, a billionaire...[is]a member of an ultraconservative Calvinist sect that believes in “predestination” — God has already decided who is going to heaven before we are born — and worships private enterprise. Speaking to The Gathering, an annual meeting of super-wealthy conservative Christians in 2001, DeVos compared “the system of education in the country” to a biblical battlefield where Israelites fought the Philistines, according to Politico.
In other words, she means to push vouchers, which would starve public schools of desperately needed funds, to advance her right-wing religious views. Nothing is more dangerous to liberal democratic values than that.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/opinion/column/cynthia-tucker-devos-sees-public-education-as-biblical-battlefield/article_33f57964-ed6e-5ebf-b4d8-ff44d85b656f.html