On Wednesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivered a commencement address at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Or she tried to, anyway.
The audience was not here for it. DeVos’s words could barely be heard over the audible roars and boos of angry students.
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Between DeVos’s past partisan politics, her billionaire status, anti-gay past, missing ethics paperwork, her advocating the use of schools to advance “God’s kingdom,” her comments on how guns should be kept in schools to fight off bears, her whitewashing of black colleges, and her total lack of prior experience working in education, it’s no wonder the student body was less than pleased.
'We're making a difference...This is a big thing' -Students at Bethune Cook University on turning their #backstobetsy at commencement pic.twitter.com/ypqgIFBNX1
— Mariana_Atencio (@marianaatencio) May 10, 2017
A large number of grads have their backs to DeVos now as she speaks. It's a little hard to hear her words. pic.twitter.com/yVXsqLVJQv
— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) May 10, 2017
One demonstrator escorted out of @BetsyDeVos speech. pic.twitter.com/VmssgmakMR
— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) May 10, 2017
“If this behavior continues, your degrees will be mailed to you,” BCU President Edison O. Jackson said to the crowd.
See for yourself.
Holy cow, #bethunecookman dean interrupts DeVos speech, threatens students "your degrees will be mailed to you!" They persist! pic.twitter.com/nkcqZrbXJ0
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) May 10, 2017
