As DeVos Eases Sexual Assault Rules, Her Old High School May Provide a Test Case

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WASHINGTON — If there was any school where her daughter would feel safe, Michelle Hoffman thought, it would be Holland Christian High School. Betsy DeVos, the famously religious education secretary, was educated there, and the school preached that its students would seek “in all endeavors to ‘do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with their God.’”

But after her 15-year-old was sexually assaulted by her 17-year-old boyfriend, another student at the school, Ms. Hoffman realized how misplaced that confidence was. Instead of helping, the school’s principal called the assault “underage sex” and told her the school was “not taking sides.”

An ensuing lawsuit filed by Ms. Hoffman against Holland Christian has turned Ms. DeVos’s private alma mater in Holland, Mich., into Exhibit A as the secretary moves to overhaul the law that governs school sexual assault — and to bolster the rights of the accused while narrowing the responsibilities that schools have to investigate sexual misconduct.

The Holland case lays bare some of the biggest concerns about Ms. DeVos’s proposals for Title IX — the 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. On Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee will hold a hearing on responding to sexual assault on college campuses. But Title IX also applies to primary and secondary schools — like Holland Christian.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/betsy-devos-sexual-assault-title-ix.html

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1. Kick

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. Has anyone heard her testify before Congress ?

She cannot even answer a simple question.

She talks in circles of stupid.

That she is in charge of anything - much less education - is ridiculous.

She is causing real harm to our schools and failing to protect our children.