Charter School Advocate Betsy DeVos to Head Ed Dept.

There must be quivering in fear and consternation throughout the teachers’ union nation

Trump has just selected Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education

She is a strong advocate of charter schools as a means to academic success insure

For Blue big city majors and teachers unions the disease of failure is far better than a charter school cure

Trump said it best on the campaign trail

Public inner cities are a disaster, a sure pathway to unemployment and jail

Charter schools in which the parents have a stake in their children’s success

As opposed to too many of our public schools where they are hobbled by failure and distress

Throwing more and more dollars at the inner city schools merely adds to the swamp’s depth

Adding the heavy hand of regulation by the feds merely adds to the swamp’s breadth

If I were an inner city public teachers’ union boss

I would be working day and night to see how into the trash my members’ opposition could be tossed

While seeking performance based grants to teachers who unlike the fraud at the  VA

Real not fraudulent measurements like graduation, entrance to college, fewer dropouts to display

And working day and night to work with principals to fire tenured teachers whose performance was subpar

Always when it came to qualifications to teach relentlessly raising the height of the bar

There will come a day in the not too distant future that dues the unions will have to earn

No longer to be forcibly deducted from the paychecks teachers earn

 © November 23, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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