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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeVos's Dept of Education tweeted a W.E.B. Du Bois quote this morning, and misspelled his name
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life. W.E.B. DeBois
Found thanks to a tweet from Tariq Nasheed, who included a screen shot of the misspelled tweet:
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The US Dept of Education under #BetsyDeVos put up a tweet and misspelled W.E.B Dubois name. Thanks, Trump voters. #GoodLord
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DeVos's Dept of Education tweeted a W.E.B. Du Bois quote this morning, and misspelled his name (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Feb 2017
OP
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)1. It's...
DuhVos
Duh
Vos
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. good one..
( tho some are calling her Umbridge)
Kber
(5,043 posts)2. Is this real?
It seems a bit too much.
I'm a terrible speller (I'm dyslexic), but I know that to carefully proof my stuff (and get someone's help if it's really public or important).
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. But if one is really, really rich, one is often really, really convinced
of one's own high intelligence.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)3. Good God!
What a train wreck!
flygal
(3,231 posts)5. Oh man - that US Dept of Ed twitter feed
MineralMan
(146,311 posts)7. Children: Always remember, speling maters.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)8. Is Ralph Wiggum the deputy?
marlakay
(11,468 posts)9. Pretty soon all depts
Are going to go offline, no matter how civil or nice they try to be there is an army of online pitchfork citizens to remind them they are not happy!