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Patt's avatar

Educator here. Few republican nominated Secretaries of Education have been actual educators, which demonstrates the value republicans have placed on education.

My favorite Education Secretary was moral crusader Bill Bennett nominated by Ronnie Reagan. Bennett, wrote a book on morality titled, The Book of Virtues. Later it was discovered he had a serious gambling problem with $8M in losses. Democracy Now called him, "The Bookie of Virtue."

Having a WWE executive, as an education secretary who overlooked child abuse, just lives up to the Republicans' lack of commitment to an educated populace. It does demonstrate their full commitment to hypocrisy though.

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Maria Jette's avatar

What a hellish story. I wish the fact that Cole died by suicide were mentioned more prominently in the excellent (and grueling) report—it’s easily missed, IMO, in the spot well before the end. I’d like to see it as the very last line, or at least juxtaposed with that heartbreaking quote from him about just wanting to be believed.

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