Betsy DeVos issued a statement yesterday praising black colleges as a fine example of “school choice.”
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Apparently, she is unaware that those colleges were created because there was no choice. Because of discrimination and Jim Crow segregation, black students could not get into existing colleges. Thus, is they wanted to go to college, the only choice they had was to create separate colleges. They did not do this because they chose to; they did it because they had no other choice. But our blithering idiot of an education secretary appears not to know that.
First of all, it sounds like a seventh-grader wrote this, which is perhaps what happens when you put someone who has never really had a real job in charge of the Department of Education. Second, this official 2017 federal government press release celebrates legal segregation (!!!) on the grounds that the Jim Crow education system gave black students "more options," as if there was a robust competition between HBCUs and white universities for their patronage. (
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Had DeVos been educated at a public school, instead of the Holland Christian High School, a private school, perhaps she would have known this.