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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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Or as Al Franken observed, “apparently smugness is a virtue”.

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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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Sexual abuse is a requirement for this administration. Clearly.

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Well, the pre-Trump standard also made allowances for Dennis Hastert and Jim (Gym) Jordan. Republicans simply don’t care about sexual abuse of minors.

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You can never be too bad for the trump cabinet. In our Orwellian world, the worse, the better.

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Just when we thought we’d reached the bottom of the barrel.

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Please at least add a link to a newsletter or someone who has ideas what we should DO about this!

We're so tired of the bad news, we need to move on quickly to action.

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So if Trump intends to destroy the Dept. of Education, why is he hiring anyone at all to head the agency, let alone a crony who stinks of sex scandals?

It feels like a big joke, all of this new "Trump administration." It's not an administration. It's a wrecking ball setting up a dictatorship, We're getting whiplash watching all the simultaneous destruction. I'm retired and collecting Social Security, which I need in order to survive. I'm terrified. Federal agencies are being torn apart, people are losing their jobs, their careers, and their pensions. And people are talking, talking, talking, but they don't seem to know what needs to be done. Think Mussolini, think Moamar Gaddafi.

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