The "asshole" advising the president on education is generally a teacher. People don't magically become terrible just because they work for the government. It

The "asshole" advising the president on education is generally a teacher. People don't magically become terrible just because they work for the government. It's healthy to be skeptical of the government. It's not healthy to always assume malice, because it makes you so biased that you do things like assume your mechanic knows more about the safety of cars than the people whose only job is to determine the safety of cars.