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The insubordination of Pat Toomey

Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey seems to have forgotten who he works for.

Over the past few weeks, Sen. Toomey blatantly disregarded the thousands of emails, phone calls, and letters pouring into his offices across the state and Washington, urging him cast his vote against Betsy DeVos for U.S. Secretary of Education, from whom he has received $60,050 in campaign contributions.

There have been countless reports of faxes not going through, e-mails not getting returned, busy signals and full voice mailboxes at his offices.

To take charge of our nation’s school system, he gave the reigns to a person who doesn’t know the difference between “proficiency” and “growth,” a concept I learned in my first year as an undergraduate. Donald Trump has hired a person who seems to have plagiarized large portions of her questionnaire to the Senate, said it would be premature to commit to upholding campus protections against sexual assault, failed to recognize IDEA as a federal law, and hasn’t managed a dime of federal student loan debt in her life.

Teachers in Pennsylvania are required to take 24 credits past their bachelor’s degree to maintain their licenses. They have more education on a subject, and more experience on a subject, than the person who will now oversee their professions. She did not get this job because of her qualifications. She got this job because of privilege.

Sen. Pat Toomey failed at representing the people of Pennsylvania. We made our voices heard, and they fell to deaf ears.

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