Does the name Betsy DeVos mean anything to you? It’s ok if it doesn’t, I didn’t know who this person was up to a few weeks ago.

There were two videos circling Facebook of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both U.S. Senators, questioning Betsy DeVos at her confirmation hearing for the nomination of Secretary of Education. This was the first time I ever heard of Betsy DeVos.

In the first video, Senator Warren was attacking Ms. DeVos on her lack of experience with student loans, Pell Grant, and public education.

After every question, Ms. DeVos would answer with an excuse explaining why she had no experience and after each sad attempt it was obvious that she was not Secretary of Education material.

The second video consisted of Senator Sanders attacking Ms. DeVos’s nomination. “Do you think that if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions, that you would be sitting here today?”, said Senator Sanders in the video.

After watching both videos, I could not fathom that someone so unprepared and inexperienced was about to take position as our Secretary of Education. This woman was about to have the future of America’s generations in her hands.

I was convinced that most people would see reason and she would never get the votes necessary to put her in power. Trump’s administration found a way to ruin everything and prove me wrong once again.

The vote was tied up on the senate floor and the tiebreaker went to Vice President Mike Pence and he voted in favor. Betsy DeVos was officially voted in as the new Secretary of Education.

This was the first time that a vice president had to go to the Capitol and break a tie on a cabinet nomination.

Betsy DeVos is a very dangerous woman, she is not only another inexperienced person in Trump’s new administration but she has a very threatening ideology behind the nation’s public school system.

DeVos wants to get rid of the public school educational system and privatize it all. This means that there is going to be widespread funding to expand charter schools nationwide.

Public schools are already underfunded and instead of fixing that problem and making those schools better, she is going to neglect them and increase the funding for charter, private, and religious schools.