Learning Curve
Yesterday, Betsy DeVos got a tiny glimpse of how much she doesn't know about public education. At least, she did if she's paying attention. After her first day as the least qualified Secretary of Education in history, she tweeted, "Now, where do I find the pencils?" (Though her punctuation was less excellent than mine, having left out the necessary comma.) Twitter exploded with teachers and others informing DeVos that our woefully underfunded public schools don't provide pencils, and that teachers routinely purchase supplies for their classrooms out of their own pockets. Of course, the money DeVos spent purchasing her position would have bought quite a number of pencils, but maybe we won't go there right now. Instead, let's talk about the learning curve. During the presidential primary season, Rick Perry recommended abolishing the Department of Energy (or did when he could remember the list of which departments he wanted to get rid of). Then he