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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo my school administrators just sent an email telling us not to slam Trump to the students
Respect, Blah, Blah, Blah.
Funny, I don't remember the same email when President Obama was elected.
lisa58
(5,755 posts)Trump spends all his time insulting and disrespecting. What age group are the students?
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)And why would any of you need to be told that?
Political opinipns don't belong in the classroom.
demmiblue
(36,855 posts)Perhaps this person is not a teacher, but works in a school in some other sort of capacity.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)It was more likely parents bitching to administration about something they "heard a teacher said"
The things that DT has said and the way he has conducted himself is setting an example to bully. It has to be addressed in some classrooms at some point.
Kids mocking disabled, telling students of Mexican decent they're going to be deported, lunchrooms chanting "build the wall"... all of that was reportedly going on after the election.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)if professors were told not to "criticize" Trump or say anything at all about politics. But then universities are a very different environment -- still it's hard to imagine high schools or junior high schools ordering teachers not to say anything "negative" about Trump.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Accurate and relevant observations are often held as 'political opinion.'
It would be impossible for to teach FDR's impact on the nation (or that of any other president) without being interpreted by one or more as 'political opinion.'
But do keep pretending you know what does and does not belong in the classroom.
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Initech
(100,079 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)wasn't appropriate for the thread.
Initech
(100,079 posts)Fuck Trump.
Freethinker65
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anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)They are now trying to silence any critics of their leader. It is ridiculous.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)"To the students" was cut off on my phone. I thought they meant at all or amongst yourselves.
i deleted my Betsy DeVos rant above.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)announce that the schools would NOT show the President's address to students.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)President Obama talked about educational achievement.
hunter
(38,314 posts)Challenge Accepted!
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)eom
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)Cha
(297,267 posts)thank you..
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)unlike the others who weren't hated quite so much. Although most teachers practice a policy of being careful about anything that might seem like partisan talk anyway. Families these days are too quick to make a fuss.
Cha
(297,267 posts)Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech
snip//
The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.
Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.
"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/
Boo!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Herr Drumpf speak will be called trouble-makers and have their request denied.
Cha
(297,267 posts)It's ok for dumpfuck to spread FAKE NEWS and accuse everyone else of doing it.
It's like the worst twisted nightmare imaginable but we living it. All I can do is hope the the Cosmos takes over and the Pendulum swings before it too late.. which will obviously entail a lot of hard work on out part.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)that I don't really know what to do.
I don't have a lot of dough to be donating, but I do occasionally make donations to candidates or organizations. (In fact, just came across some records from Obama's campaigns showing I'd donated even more than I remembered, especially the first time--I was soooooo determined not to let the female Trump lite, Palin, near the White House!)
Now I get what seems like hundreds of requests a week for donations, and I really don't know who is going to best use the funds they're raising.
Other than donating the small amount I can, if I figure out who to donate to, I don't know what to do. I really would love for the Dems to finally realize the need to unmercifully combat the RW propaganda machine and enlist us, somehow, to help with a concerted effort.
They need to hire experts to figure out what we can do and to co-ordinate it. I know Dems are supposedly as hard to herd as cats, but maybe we're finally ready for a unified fight.
Cha
(297,267 posts)as it unfolds.
I also think when President Obama becomes a private citizen and the DNC chooses their leader things will pop!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)But more and more I think that's not gong to be nearly enough.
Hoping Obama will lead us in the resistance!
Cha
(297,267 posts)more on his and his community of organizers' on their plate than just Gerrymandering.. although super important.
Me, too! I think it is all going to make the next four years more bearable.. we'll see.
radical noodle
(8,000 posts)They had a freaking meltdown over that!
LeftInTX
(25,361 posts)and then Watergate. The teacher didn't hold back. (My conservative dad wasn't too thrilled with our newfound liberal values - LOL)
Cha
(297,267 posts)Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech
snip//
The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.
Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.
"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/
Boo!
It must have escaped my attention at the time.
How different than the 70's!!! Even though my dad didn't agree with our newfound politics, he respected our critical thinking skills. He didn't make a stink. He admired us for getting involved with current events.
TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)whenever people talk about wanting respect for Trump:
I'm sure the whole birther movement was built on the utmost of respect.
Obama got none from their side. We're just doing our part as the loyal opposition.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Cha
(297,267 posts)spoke on tv about education at the beginning of his term.. didn't some of the gop schools boycott it
Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech
snip//
The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.
Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.
"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/
Boo!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)schools are supposedly trying to brainwash kids to be liberal.
There was a right-wing secretary at one of my places of employment who I'd briefly disagreed with on some political issues one day. A few days later when I asked her for some needed supplies, she asked me if I went to college. I replied that I did. She answered, "Oh, that explains your liberal beliefs. You were brainwashed there."
It didn't dawn on her that maybe SHE was brainwashed by right wing propagandists that she followed on AM radio. Not to mention that I had liberal attitudes before I went to college.
Sid Fishes
(22 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...someone that directly threatens their job.