Memo to the Education Secretary: Before you sit down with 60 Minutes and Leslie Stahl, perhaps study up on education, especially in your home state, or you’ll look like this:
Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos struggles to answer fairly basic questions on school performance on 60 Minutes pic.twitter.com/lFVq3USwUW
— Axios (@axios) March 12, 2018
When Stahl asked her about being the “most hated” member of Donald Trump’s cabinet, she said that she was “misunderstood.” According to The Washington Post:
“These are just some of the things that DeVos said — or couldn’t answer — during the interview:
- She couldn’t say whether the number of false accusations of sexual assault on school campuses is lower than the number of actual rapes or assaults.
- Arming teachers “should be an option” for states and communities, she said, even though she couldn’t “ever imagine” her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Zorhoff, having a gun.
- “We have invested billions and billions and billions of dollars from the federal level, and we have seen zero results,” she said — a statement Stahl challenged.
- “I hesitate to talk about all schools in general because schools are made up of individual students attending them.”
- In reference to the #MeToo movement, she said she experienced some moments decades ago that “today would just be viewed as unacceptable.”
We all expected a controversial blonde woman to embarrass the Trump administration on 60 minutes, we just thought it would be Stormy Daniels not Betsy DeVos.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 12, 2018
Perhaps this is why Devos rarely gives interviews.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/973016056448069632
Watch the full 60 Minutes segment here.