The other day, social media participants had themselves a festival of amazing after the new Betsy DeVos-run United States Department of Education sent out this tweet.
Oh boy. A few hours later they fixed their problem. MLive was able to get a screengrab of their follow up post.
Doh! A short while later they posted this.
Listen, I’m one of the worst spellers I know—Daily Kos spends 85 percent of its revenue copyediting my diaries. But the perfect irony here is that DeVos, and people like DeVos (I’m looking at you Cory Booker), want to privatize our education system and use the kinds of standardized testing and achievement schemas schemes that would make the above error more important than actual critical thinking and learning.