New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz is always a humorous read. Here’s his
latest with an introduction from TomDispatch’s Tom Engelhardt
It's time
for New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz again. After all, in the wake (and I do
mean "wake") of Vice-President Pence shooing Betsy DeVos into the
office of secretary of education, it's sayonara for education in America. No
more "government schools"! Just summer vacation (with vouchers) all
the time. It'll be heaven on Earth... Tom
"The
Senate’s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary means that
immigrants will be the nation’s only reliable source of educated people going
forward, education experts said on Tuesday.
"Under
DeVos, according to Davis Logsdon, the dean of the University of Minnesota’s
School of Education, the U.S. will have to 'drastically increase its inflow of
immigrants' if it wants people capable of performing even the simplest tasks.
'Most of our industries require people who can read, write, and do arithmetic,
even in a rudimentary way,' he said. 'The Senate just shot that to hell.'
"With
DeVos running the Department of Education, Logsdon said, millions of American
students 'will graduate from high school each year without mastering any useful
skills—in other words, much like DeVos herself.' The spectre of an economy
plagued by workers 'operating at a DeVos level of sub-proficiency' means that
the United States will need to do everything in its power to attract educated
immigrants to its shores, he said.
"Logsdon
did not offer a complete list of countries with people whom the U.S. should try
to lure, but he said that a partial list would include Iraq, Iran, Syria,
Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Libya."
