“Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation Thursday, citing the president\u2019s role in the riot on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,\u201d she wrote in a letter to President Trump. The behavior of the \u201cviolent protestors overrunning the U.S. Capitol\u201d was \u201cunconscionable,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cImpressionable children are watching all of this, and they are learning from us. I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good judgment and model the behavior we hope they would emulate,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey must know from us that America is greater than what transpired yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said her resignation is effective Friday. The resignation, she said was \u201cin support of the oath I took to our Constitution, our people, and our freedoms.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/education-secretary-devos-resigns\/2021\/01\/07\/1a3c967a-5155-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation Thursday, citing the president\u2019s role in the riot on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,\u201d she wrote in a letter to President Trump. The behavior of the \u201cviolent protestors overrunning the U.S. Capitol\u201d was \u201cunconscionable,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cImpressionable children are watching all of this, and they are learning from us. I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good judgment and model the behavior we hope they would emulate,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey must know from us that America is greater than what transpired yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her resignation is effective Friday. The resignation, she said was \u201cin support of the oath I took to our Constitution, our people, and our freedoms.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1136,1137,431,221,372,813,1134,170],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-betsy-devos","tag-capital-building","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-presidency","tag-riot","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}