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" Tired of Homeschooling? Betsy DeVos Suggests Letting Your Kid Die"

Title (Dublin Core)

" Tired of Homeschooling? Betsy DeVos Suggests Letting Your Kid Die"

Description (Dublin Core)

As the United States continues to experience record breaking numbers of new coronavirus cases, the Trump Administration is pushing for schools to reopen. Reductress, a feminist satire news website, offers a dark humor take on the push to reopen schools. In this satirical article, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is fictitiously quoted as saying "I don’t want you to think we’re going to lose all the kids, or that I don’t care about kids dying. I just think over 14,000 kids dying isn’t that big of a deal, and on the bright side that’s like 28,000 parents who no longer have to deal with homeschooling!” Relying on morbid humor, this article underscores the fear that reopening schools will lead to mass illness, hospitalization, and death.

Date (Dublin Core)

July 13, 2020

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Carolyn Evans

Type (Dublin Core)

screenshot

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://reductress.com/post/tired-homeschooling-betsy-devos-suggests-letting-your-kid-die/?fbclid=IwAR3nJEotTewvM2DtwL8gZJjCyiOA0AX5GDEsQLF0z7F0hbyNPF-nyl4hkXM

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Reductress

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English News coverage
English Humor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

reopening
schools
death
Betsy DeVos
satire

Collection (Dublin Core)

Humor
English Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

My First TikTok Dance

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/14/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/14/2020
1/26/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

07/13/2020

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on July 14, 2020 by Carolyn Evans using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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