People in the trenches of the hierarchy certainly have a clearer view than those at the top, who try cluelessly to rain down their ideas on everyone else, using their resources to promote the disparity that keeps them on top. From an opinion piece by Patrick Kearney in the Huffington Post, hierarchies are again so predictable.
Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's opinion of who can do a good job as Secretary of Education, has never attended public school or had children who attended public school, as discussed from a public teachers' perspective.
"I suppose we also need to address the elephant in the room. We are a little freaked out by your nomination to be Secretary of Education. You aren’t an educator. You
haven’t ever attended or sent your children to a public school, yet you
seem to have some pretty strong opinions about them. You don’t seem to
have been involved in the study of curriculum or school standards. What
you have done is lobby (and spend millions of dollars of your own money
in advocacy) for taxpayer dollars to go to unregulated for-profit
charter schools. As teachers we like to look at data. Interestingly, the
data from Michigan (where you have been able to use your wealth to
influence a lot of education policy) would suggest that the charter
schools you lobby for aren’t really achieving any better than their
public counterparts."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-introduction-from-public-school-teachers-to-betsy_us_5845e2fbe4b0707e4c8171a3
