This Year's Scariest Halloween Costume Goes to Betsy DeVos as Ms. Frizzle

Deeply unpopular education secretary Betsy DeVos decided to celebrate this year's White House Halloween party by dressing up as every 90s kid's favorite TV teacher Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus, which, as one might imagine, isn't going over too magically.

Fans of the wacky, brilliant, arguably unhinged Ms. Frizzle slammed DeVos for being bold enough to go for the costume, calling the move "deeply disturbing," "the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen," and—in a word—"sacrilege." One particularly irate Twitter user advised her to "eat shit and die."

Whereas Ms. Frizzle taught Arnold, Dorothy Ann, and the rest of her fourth grade class the value of learning about science hands-on at a public school, DeVos has never been a teacher. The former millionaire donor has relatively little experience working in public schools and has been an outspoken advocate for allocating taxpayer money toward private charter schools—qualifications that left folks scratching their heads when she was selected to serve as education secretary.

Since taking office, DeVos has cut federal guidelines that protected disabled students, scrapped Obama-era guidelines on campus rape, and protected for-profit universities. All that un-Ms. Frizzle-like behavior has made her pretty unpopular with actual students, teachers, parents, and of course, the internet:

If DeVos's rendition of the beloved elementary school teacher completely ruined your childhood memories of all that was pure and good in this world, don't worry: There's a Magic School Bus reboot on Netflix right now, starring SNL's Kate McKinnon as Ms. Frizzle's sister, so you can relive the days when science was as easy as watching a bus full of cartoon children get shrunk and baked into pies or whatever.

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