LAST chance to STOP Devos!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take Pennsylvania & Nevada!
We will make as many calls as we can & I have also forwarded to my friends & family (I have a HUGE supportive family & we do everything for one another!).
Thanks to whomever posted this wonderful info!

This made me smile. So glad your friends and family are on board too!

Thanks... I'm glad I could put a smile on your face.
And I meant it, we've had 22 friends and family members who live in Pennsylvania & Nevada call repeatedly over the past 2 days.
Some had to (gladly) wait on hold for 5 - 10 minutes & Pennsylvanias mailbox was primarily full, but my sister in law used her sneaky super spy google skills & found out who Toomey interns were & she had us start calling them instead of him directly (that worked for about 30 minutes & then we were told we had to call him, but we got in about 20 calls in that time).
We've had to leave more voicemails than spoke to actual people, but if we're talking about rocking it old school, my grandparents had everyone in their senior assisted living facility right letters to Senator Toomey & my grandfather even hand delivered them himself to his office.

So, we'll see on a Monday if we've made a difference, good luck to all of us! (((( hugs))))

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LOVE this!!! Thank you to your friends and family and to all the awesome seniors at assisted living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Did ANY of you actually watch all three hours of her hearings, reading her background and know exactly where she stands on issues? Because you are all buying into a bunch of falsehoods being circulated by the Dem Senators and the NEA (National Education Association), which doesn't care about education, it cares about teachers. It is the largest teachers' union in the USA. And you are eating their line, hook & sinker.

I did actually. She is highly Unqualified. Nice try with pretending this is just fake news twisting her words. I watched it all. I have also read her plagiarized words.

#NotMySecretaryofEducation

[Anonymous]

I watched her hearing. No one who watched her hearing could possibly think she was qualified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Did ANY of you actually watch all three hours of her hearings, reading her background and know exactly where she stands on issues? Because you are all buying into a bunch of falsehoods being circulated by the Dem Senators and the NEA (National Education Association), which doesn't care about education, it cares about teachers. It is the largest teachers' union in the USA. And you are eating their line, hook & sinker.

What do you think of her investment in unproven snake oil therapy for mentally ill children and kids with SN?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take Pennsylvania & Nevada!
We will make as many calls as we can & I have also forwarded to my friends & family (I have a HUGE supportive family & we do everything for one another!).
Thanks to whomever posted this wonderful info!

This made me smile. So glad your friends and family are on board too!

Thanks... I'm glad I could put a smile on your face.
And I meant it, we've had 22 friends and family members who live in Pennsylvania & Nevada call repeatedly over the past 2 days.
Some had to (gladly) wait on hold for 5 - 10 minutes & Pennsylvanias mailbox was primarily full, but my sister in law used her sneaky super spy google skills & found out who Toomey interns were & she had us start calling them instead of him directly (that worked for about 30 minutes & then we were told we had to call him, but we got in about 20 calls in that time).
We've had to leave more voicemails than spoke to actual people, but if we're talking about rocking it old school, my grandparents had everyone in their senior assisted living facility right letters to Senator Toomey & my grandfather even hand delivered them himself to his office.

So, we'll see on a Monday if we've made a difference, good luck to all of us! (((( hugs))))



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LOVE this!!! Thank you to your friends and family and to all the awesome seniors at assisted living.

They were happy to do it! Like I said, we are a very tight little tribe & when one of us needs help, everyone pitches in.

I think it's because I'm first generation American & when my family came here, they had nobody really but themselves to lean on.
Although my dad wasn't born here (born in Romania, although Italian in heritage) he has THE most American pride of anyone I've ever known in my life (and I worked for the government, lol!).
When he had his naturalization ceremony at the age of 15, they gave him an American flag pin to wear on his lapel, do you know he wore that same pin on every single shirt he put on for 3 years straight.
The only reason he took it off was because he was told to & that was on his dream day, the day when he was old enough to enlist in the Air Force.
He was so excited to give back to this "WONdaFULL country", he was waiting outside the enlistment office at 5am the day he turned 18.
After he retired, he went back to wearing that same pin every day again until the paint had completely wore off of it & we got him a brand new one & then another one after that (come to think of it, he probably needs a new one now... he just turned 75!).

So, when it comes to defending this country & doing things the "Ahm-er-I-can way" (like call our senators) my family is happy to do their parts as American citizens, because as they always say "America has been more of a home to them than their birth country ever was" (we're Romanian/Italian Jews & my family left Romania for France during the Nazi regime (which wasn't much better).

They ONLY consider themselves Americans... period.
So when someone will hear my grandfathers thick Italian accent or my grandmothers eastern European accent & they ask them "oh, what nationality are you?" They always say "American".

PS. the seniors were excited to have something to do, this got their juices flowing & they likened it to a protest from back in the day... they were PUMPED, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the senators just ignore calls from people who don't vote in their states?

Wouldn't you?

Generally yes. My DCs have both been interns on the Hill (and so was I but in a different era). They don't even tally sides unless it's a constituent. I suppose you could lie. I recall that D.C. had to ask people for their zip codes. They also had caller ID so could see if someone was calling from instate or not (not always accurate with cell phones these days though). And remember when you call that the person on the line is likely an intern, and in the case of my DCs were 16 years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't the senators just ignore calls from people who don't vote in their states?

Wouldn't you?

Generally yes. My DCs have both been interns on the Hill (and so was I but in a different era). They don't even tally sides unless it's a constituent. I suppose you could lie. I recall that D.C. had to ask people for their zip codes. They also had caller ID so could see if someone was calling from instate or not (not always accurate with cell phones these days though). And remember when you call that the person on the line is likely an intern, and in the case of my DCs were 16 years old.

Good for them, way to go Mom!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll take Pennsylvania & Nevada!
We will make as many calls as we can & I have also forwarded to my friends & family (I have a HUGE supportive family & we do everything for one another!).
Thanks to whomever posted this wonderful info!

This made me smile. So glad your friends and family are on board too!

Thanks... I'm glad I could put a smile on your face.
And I meant it, we've had 22 friends and family members who live in Pennsylvania & Nevada call repeatedly over the past 2 days.
Some had to (gladly) wait on hold for 5 - 10 minutes & Pennsylvanias mailbox was primarily full, but my sister in law used her sneaky super spy google skills & found out who Toomey interns were & she had us start calling them instead of him directly (that worked for about 30 minutes & then we were told we had to call him, but we got in about 20 calls in that time).
We've had to leave more voicemails than spoke to actual people, but if we're talking about rocking it old school, my grandparents had everyone in their senior assisted living facility right letters to Senator Toomey & my grandfather even hand delivered them himself to his office.

So, we'll see on a Monday if we've made a difference, good luck to all of us! (((( hugs))))



.

LOVE this!!! Thank you to your friends and family and to all the awesome seniors at assisted living.

They were happy to do it! Like I said, we are a very tight little tribe & when one of us needs help, everyone pitches in.

I think it's because I'm first generation American & when my family came here, they had nobody really but themselves to lean on.
Although my dad wasn't born here (born in Romania, although Italian in heritage) he has THE most American pride of anyone I've ever known in my life (and I worked for the government, lol!).
When he had his naturalization ceremony at the age of 15, they gave him an American flag pin to wear on his lapel, do you know he wore that same pin on every single shirt he put on for 3 years straight.
The only reason he took it off was because he was told to & that was on his dream day, the day when he was old enough to enlist in the Air Force.
He was so excited to give back to this "WONdaFULL country", he was waiting outside the enlistment office at 5am the day he turned 18.
After he retired, he went back to wearing that same pin every day again until the paint had completely wore off of it & we got him a brand new one & then another one after that (come to think of it, he probably needs a new one now... he just turned 75!).

So, when it comes to defending this country & doing things the "Ahm-er-I-can way" (like call our senators) my family is happy to do their parts as American citizens, because as they always say "America has been more of a home to them than their birth country ever was" (we're Romanian/Italian Jews & my family left Romania for France during the Nazi regime (which wasn't much better).

They ONLY consider themselves Americans... period.
So when someone will hear my grandfathers thick Italian accent or my grandmothers eastern European accent & they ask them "oh, what nationality are you?" They always say "American".

PS. the seniors were excited to have something to do, this got their juices flowing & they likened it to a protest from back in the day... they were PUMPED, lol.

Such a sweet story and what a great support system you have! My family originally came here fleeing the Nazis too and they have never identified as anything but American since their home countries didn't want them. That's why the Syrian refuge stuff gets me so upset. These people are fleeing violence and would probably be such grateful contributing members of society. They are vetted so much that the chances of any being terrorists is likley a tiny fraction of a percent. My grandparents and great-grandparents, etc some of whom were teachers are rolling over in the graves right now over DeVos and Sessions (and others).

It gives me hope that across America people are calling and demanding to be heard by their Senators.

[Anonymous]

Not one of you understands what the Secretary of Education actually does. Not one of you. Read about the Department in Wikipedia; read what the Sec'y of Education actually does; read DeVos's page. She has zero control about what happens in your local public school district. That is an issue for your local supervisors, school board, and state legislature via budgeting. The U.S. Department of Education did not even exist until Carter created it in 1979. The Secretary of Education has nothing to do with local choice/voucher issues. Stop circulating the NEA falsehoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not one of you understands what the Secretary of Education actually does. Not one of you. Read about the Department in Wikipedia; read what the Sec'y of Education actually does; read DeVos's page. She has zero control about what happens in your local public school district. That is an issue for your local supervisors, school board, and state legislature via budgeting. The U.S. Department of Education did not even exist until Carter created it in 1979. The Secretary of Education has nothing to do with local choice/voucher issues. Stop circulating the NEA falsehoods.

so why does the NEA care about her? What about IDEA (this is the Special Needs board after all). What about the fact that Trump is on record promisong increased funding for vouchers? and what will she do about fraudulent for profit colleges, student loan servicers, and debt collectors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious. Did ANY of you actually watch all three hours of her hearings, reading her background and know exactly where she stands on issues? Because you are all buying into a bunch of falsehoods being circulated by the Dem Senators and the NEA (National Education Association), which doesn't care about education, it cares about teachers. It is the largest teachers' union in the USA. And you are eating their line, hook & sinker.

I watched some of her hearing. She doesn't even know what IDEA is, thinks it should be up to states to decide it kids with disabilities get an education of not. She refused to answer Kaine's questions on accountability. She is woefully unprepared. She has no relevant experience. 1,000 people protested against her nomination in her hometown of Holland MI last weekend. A friend of mine was one of them.

You're the one who's been had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not one of you understands what the Secretary of Education actually does. Not one of you. Read about the Department in Wikipedia; read what the Sec'y of Education actually does; read DeVos's page. She has zero control about what happens in your local public school district. That is an issue for your local supervisors, school board, and state legislature via budgeting. The U.S. Department of Education did not even exist until Carter created it in 1979. The Secretary of Education has nothing to do with local choice/voucher issues. Stop circulating the NEA falsehoods.

We do! We know more than Devos. She does not even know about IDEA! please read up on this.

We know what local school boards do. We know they have to comply with IDEA, a federal law. Devos did not know this.

[Anonymous]

This lays it out well. People from her alma mater wrote a letter saying she was unqualified too.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-betsy-devos-riling-education-advocates-n716491?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not one of you understands what the Secretary of Education actually does. Not one of you. Read about the Department in Wikipedia; read what the Sec'y of Education actually does; read DeVos's page. She has zero control about what happens in your local public school district. That is an issue for your local supervisors, school board, and state legislature via budgeting. The U.S. Department of Education did not even exist until Carter created it in 1979. The Secretary of Education has nothing to do with local choice/voucher issues. Stop circulating the NEA falsehoods.

I will put in economic terms.

She will have influence when it applies to the IDEA and other pieces of legislation that provide provision for students with disabilities. Many of our school districts would not provide the services our children need to become independent tax paying adults without the federal law, they would rather save money now and let the state & feds take care of them for the rest of their lives. The problem is that the local school systems have to pay for the extra cost, but other areas of the government (state and federal) get the financial savings benefit so since school systems only see added costs and no financial benefit they are likely to cut services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one of you understands what the Secretary of Education actually does. Not one of you. Read about the Department in Wikipedia; read what the Sec'y of Education actually does; read DeVos's page. She has zero control about what happens in your local public school district. That is an issue for your local supervisors, school board, and state legislature via budgeting. The U.S. Department of Education did not even exist until Carter created it in 1979. The Secretary of Education has nothing to do with local choice/voucher issues. Stop circulating the NEA falsehoods.

so why does the NEA care about her? What about IDEA (this is the Special Needs board after all). What about the fact that Trump is on record promisong increased funding for vouchers? and what will she do about fraudulent for profit colleges, student loan servicers, and debt collectors?

The vouchers will never be enough to cover the tuition cost of special needs private schools (or regular private schools), they are only useful for those richer people to be able to discount the cost of private school for their children. In general, private schools cost more per child than public schools.