Education Secretary Betsy DeVos gave a blistering speech at George Mason University on Thursday, dressing down the previous administration for using federal guidance regulations to run roughshod over public schools and universities throughout the country.
In another signal that DeVos’s Education Department is going to take a much different view of some integral Title IX issues, DeVos said that the Obama administration unfairly persecuted college men by slapping them with a presumption of guilt after the thinnest of rape accusations.
“The era of ‘rule by letter’ is over,” DeVos said in her speech. “Through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach.”
DeVos criticized the Obama administration for using “weaponized” federal guidance letters to “work against schools and against students” in a quest for more Washington power.
DeVos’s Education Department has already rolled back the Obama administration’s unwelcome “guidance” – read: threat – to public schools regarding how they should accommodate transgender students, but rolling back the current guidelines on campus sexual assault is an even more important matter. By bending over backwards to satisfy the extreme feminist left on this issue, the Obama Education Department put millions of college men in significant peril while eroding the very fabric of our national judicial process.
In 2011, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights issued guidance to schools telling them that they must adjudicate sexual assault cases using a “preponderance of the evidence” standard. In other words, the same burden of proof required in civil court: 51%. If an educator simply believes that the assault more likely occurred than did not – even by a single hair’s breadth – they must conclude that the accused is guilty. This standard has ruined lives, caused innocent men to become pariahs in their communities, and given feminists an iron fist on college campuses from coast to coast. Perhaps most troubling, it had the effect of spreading the scarce resources of sexual assault programs and law enforcement officials, making it more likely that ACTUAL rape and sexual violence go undetected.
“If everything is harassment, then nothing is,” DeVos warned in her speech.
Amen to that.
It is, of course, essential that young girls are able to count on a safe and assault-free education as they make their way through the nation’s colleges and universities. But expanding the definition of sexual assault, giving unquestioned credence to every loony false accusation, and threatening schools with loss of funding if they don’t err on the side of a guilty verdict…that’s not the way to go. We have to treat the accused in these cases as we treat them in all criminal cases, and that is to place the burden of proof on the prosecution.
To do otherwise is to give our legal system and our schools over to mob rule.
I continue being surprised by how evil and divisive Obama was. We need to stamp out all this stupidity that eats up resources, money, and time for nonsense reasons. Almost everything Obama did was to rob our country and promote cultural Marxism under the guise of Political Correctness, Feminism, and Left-Wing Ideology.
And wasn’t it too bad that he was our first black Pres to represent that nationality! There are so many black people who are more honest and intelligent than he who could have represented them better.
Also wanted to make known the word nigger does not mean negroe. Nigger means slum– low class
Slaves were “owned” by some who treated them as employees and were schooled as were those of their children and many of those blacks did not leave their homes when they could have. Some who were used as animals did leave and I would think they ended up in the slums of large cities as niggers The parents in those areas need schooling to know who is still using them such as Jesse Jackson!
And “Rat Faced Sharpton” the phoney rev. and tax dodger extraordinaire.
As in 4.5 million $$$ that we would be in jail for, but he might be in trouble before long, I read where the RNC said it was time for the Mueller and Dem. witch hunt to end on the made up Russian scam, this has been the protection of MANY!!
I find it quite ironic that article at top began with, “Ever since,” since, “Ever since,” the 1963 SCOTUS decision that theoretically ended, but actually only curtailed, public school prayer, certain misguided people have been on a last ditch power drive to again make at least some of our public schools evangelical protestant indoctrination centers, like they were when America was “great.”
Betsy DeVos is a living manifestation of that ignorant and destructive impulse. Is there a hole I can get sick in? Oh, yeah, AND she’s grubbing around getting mo’ money, public money, 4 her friends, and I do believe family members, in the charter and homeschooling materials and 4-profit post secondary ed. rackets.
At least she’s not indoctrinating our children to be good American hating muslims.
You sick PUPPY!
I think his name should be “Jimmy Troll”
I agree with that, and he’s lacking a LOT BETWEEN the ears!
And lets not forget the forcing of islam on our school-children! Never had that problem until B.O. the Terrible!
Good one, David. You hit that nail squarely on the head!!!
What about getting rid of COMMON CORE ,an absolute ignorant Leftist method.
When they send your child home to measure your couch with spoons, it’s time to get back to reality and get rid of theoretical BS.
Try to answer a common core math question, what would have take us 1 inch on a piece of paper, takes a whole paper because of the convoluted way they do things.
Education is a SWAMP just as all government bodies. They all waste their assets ,secure there own wellbeing first ,and they show no respect for the value of a tax dollar, spending it as a way of showing there power.
Locally a school turns on the stadium lights hours before sunset ,just p*ssing away money ,as it seems they have endless money , But are always looking for an increase of school taxes.
The new math is to dumb down the masses. Why on earth otherwise was it needed?!
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As one who made a living for four decades as an MBA/CPA, needing to be adept at math, I can assure you that Common Core is designed to mask the difference between people who are adept at math and those who are slower. When you have to go thru 4 steps to add 9 plus 6 you are not likely to be employable or to last in a job. Maybe it is a return ticket to the Urban Plantation.
I believe superintendents get paid WAY too much for whatever they do! It’s political I am in favor of Betsys aim also. More charter schools and home schooling help. I also believe there should be tests for parents in low income areas and schooling if they cannot pass. Pre kindergarten classes don’t work because they learn more from home and what you don’t know you can’t teach! So teach the parents first
College is not doing its job either. My niece is a teacher. She tells that some of the other teachers don’t know what our taxes are used for and don’t know how the government is funded!!
While I have the floor there is a facebook thing going around telling that Clinton gave NORTH Korea nukes and 5 billion dollars of ou tax money. Yes. Billion!!! We should try him for treason and hang him!!! His picture is with the elder Un.
Ok we tried him in your fantasy land and found him innocent! No evidence of any “thing”, but we are going to arrest you for making false charges. In your fantasy only😬
Read my reply above yours!! The film of the announcement Clinton made was shown several nights ago
on Fox news. It is fact!
You misspelled FAUX news. And if faux said it it isn’t fake it is a straight up lie.
Need to brush up on YO history Red, making your dog look real master!!
Red sounds like a Soros paid Troll.
Says the Bannon troll
Actually,I don’t know how I feel about Bannon. I haven’t made my mind up either way.
So when Trump releases classified info from Israel to Russia it’s ok because he is President but when Obama and Clinton sign treaties as President it is Treason? Sounds like a double standard to me.
Just what part did he release on Israel, we know it wasn’t 20% of our Uranium to Russia like slut dawg Clinton pulled off! That’s REAL TREASON BOY!
Got some of that Maxine Waters in him, or it what ever!
This is true…after he made the deal he went on National TV and said “this deal is good for America!”
Sound familiar???? Same thing Obama said after the Iran deal!!!
And just think, Obama gave Iran 150 BILLION $$$, from Gold to untraceable cash in 4 different forms!! Even if some of it was there’s, they’re are the enemy and NONE had to be paid!!
Yeah, Good Ole White Boys can do no wrong. It’s their right to assert their power over females, after all that “good little book” says women are to be subservient to their male masters.
You’re talking about the muslims and the koran, right.
They also have their “good little book.”
OBUMA IS THE STUPIDEST THING AMERICA EVER DID. HE WAS AND IS A FIRST CLASS SCREWUP. FOLLOWED SOROS ORDERS TO A T! WORST PRESIDENT EVER. HE MAKES CARTER LOOK LIKE A GENIUS!
You make a 5w light bulb seem bright. Caps Lock is yours stuck or are you one of those people that run around screaming all the time?
You have trouble reading it, the military uses all caps!
No the military doesn’t, and no it is like reading something written by a 2nd grader.
Unless it’s a formal letter it’s in caps, that’s the way it was when I was in the Army! But his comment is dead on!
Great job Betsy:)
I hope for God’s sake Betsy can over ride all of his Feminist agenda’s desires.She will be in court with most of them and the courts are Oslama appointees, so she has her work cut out for her sadly.
I believe she’s up to the challenge.
Ohhh…. the Negro ain’t word a darn. How can a leftist communist sodomite Moslem Negro EVER teach your kids anything, HUH??
All the adjectives I mentioned have been failures in mankind and have brought out its WORST nature!
It is a given that Obama ran the Presidency like his own governmental rule. In a perfect world all of Obama’s XOs would be null and void and any political change coming from him would not be worth the paper it was written on.
Obama’s Presidency was nothing more than an experiment in proving that a black Democrat doesn’t have the mental stability to govern a Capitalist Republic. It is far more complex than just handing out free stuff to stay in office.
I think it was proved that a black Demo/lib is not worth his weight. We just need to choose Conservatives who know how to govern within a political structure.
I hope we have seen the last of experiments.
I hope so too but I have read where they are thinking about running Michael Obama and/or that racist from Ca. Kamala Harris. Either one would continue obama’s agenda to destroy America. Obama showed a black will only do what’s good for blacks.
I really don’t think we have to worry about a progressive liberal democrat, esp. black, getting into the White House again. We have learned our lesson. Capitalism works better for America.
We need to pray that President Trump keeps governing in the manner that he has been. I think he has won over Texas and Florida with the preemptive actions that he took on the matters before hand. He learned from Bush and Obama.
The only reason that President Trump carries the label of racist is not because it is true. Far from it. It is because the biased media “melted” that into the progressive liberals minds.
He has shown he is a President for all peoples.
If they would just get out of his way and let him implement his economic agenda and people start to feel financially secure again he will be reelected.
It will be a very very happy day when all of the evil destruction that Obama ,his wife,& his children have brought upon America through their wicked, disrespectful public example & actions, returns to consume them. I Never felt uncomfortable around
Negroes, but the Obamas have destroyed any vestige of trust or likability for this race. Obama’s racism has caused in me a feeling of dread & terror. This has been a major change for me. So sad!
Come on Total Conservative, I read this news last week. A little late aren’t you?
They should be investigating obama for all of his illegal actions as well as unseal all of his records he had sealed. There’s a big push on seeing Trump’s tax return but the dems. don’t seem to care that they are covering for one of the greatest frauds committed on the American public. Open his records now before he does anymore damage to our country through his, deep state /dark government, that is trying to overthrow our government
” AMEN” THANK YOU MRS. DEVOSS!! WE NEED TONS OF WOMEN LIKE YOU MAM!! WE ARE RUNNING VERY SHORT IN GOD FEARING WOMEN TO STEP FORWARD, LIKE YOU MAM!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!
It’s truly ashamed at how our congress bowed and kissed the butt of the Obama tribe, but no one wanted to be the first person to force him or his collection of black thugs to use their race cards, the Rep. for some reason are scared to death of it and the Dems. love to use it and they’re supposed to be the weak minded party, I’m beginning to wonder about that part!! They just let the FAKE clown have his way on most everything no matter how bad it was killing our country!!
And “Rat Faced Sharpton” the phoney rev. and tax dodger extraordinaire.
Here Here De Vos!! Obama only did good things for his Communist leanings on purpose, all else he was a total failure as a man?and President of OUR country. He helped Black Lives Matter and Antifa exist today. He continues to play the spoiler as a Narcissistic bum. Tow Blacks who brokered American the land they both hate. Nice
Yea! For Besty DeVos, she hit the nail on the head. Since Obama came into office the visuall and literal decline of our country’s schools began to take place. He has reduced the standard of education to a sick position that no mother I know approves of. teaching sex to three year olds, when they should be learning their ABC’s. Colleges, going insane and being invaded by Intifa…
Defund the Dept. of Education…..allow the States to teach their children. Saves the US taxpayers billions…….