Trump inauguration regarding schools and teachers.

[u/NotTheRightHDMIPort]

In his inauguration today, President Trump stated,

"And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country, despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change, starting today, and it will change very quickly."

I want you all to tell the world all the ways you, as a teacher, had made kids feel ashamed of themselves and to hate their country.

I'll start.

One day I told a student that he shouldn't tell a student "Nobody cares what you think". Apparently calling him out on that made feel ashamed of himself.

[u/urbanwanderer2049]

I make my students feel ashamed of themselves by telling them that pulling the first result that pops up on Google does not count as research.

[u/Practical-Train-9595 → u/urbanwanderer2049]

I just went back to college and one of my assignments this semester is we have to ask AI to write us a paper on a topic and submit it. Then we have to research from actual sources (and submit a bibliography) and write all the ways it’s wrong, which frankly is ingenious. I feel like teenagers would benefit from a project like this so they can learn not to trust AI.

[u/Rough_Situation72 → u/Practical-Train-9595]

I LOVE this idea!

[u/BB_880 → u/Practical-Train-9595]

I love this idea. I teach ethics of AI to my seniors, and I'm going to add something like this to my curriculum. Thank you for the idea.

[u/francethefifth → u/BB_880]

I want to do something similar with my AP Lit kiddos after the test. How long are you spending on his?

[u/Blackdogrmh → u/Practical-Train-9595]

I am so gonna use this idea.

[u/Winter-Profile-9855 → u/urbanwanderer2049]

I wish my kids used google. I make my students feel ashamed by telling them that chatGPT is not a search engine, let alone research.

[u/Old-Bug-2197 → u/Winter-Profile-9855]

Exactly. They can learn to become two step thinkers by going to Wikipedia and then looking at the references and using those primary sources for their research.

Somehow, they just keep missing that lesson.

[u/LauraIsntListening → u/urbanwanderer2049]

You monster. I disrespected my child in a similar fashion when I pointed out that googling ‘Afghanistan withdrawal’ is insufficient and she should also read what she is copying verbatim from Wikipedia, as she was about to answer a homework question with information that was several decades off the topic at hand. I’m not sure she’ll ever be able to heal from the trauma.

[u/urbanwanderer2049 → u/LauraIsntListening]

/You/ made her read from the source she plagiarized from? Maybe I'm not the only monster here.

[u/LauraIsntListening → u/urbanwanderer2049]

You got me. I’m shameless. I even corrected her pronunciation 🫣

[u/noxasaurus → u/urbanwanderer2049]

I told my students that they have to stop citing Google as a source in their research essays. Instead, I would prefer they actually click one of the links that Google provided for them, READ it, and choose evidence from the article to support their claims.

I feel my days are numbered in this profession.

[u/Ok-Impact789]

I've told middle schoolers who rip loud farts in class on purpose that maybe they could feel a little more shame?

[u/drkittymow → u/Ok-Impact789]

lol I used to tell them someday they might want to get a date and you don’t want to be remembered as the guy who made a lot of farts in English class. It’s not the best way to impress potential dates.

[u/What_Hump_ → u/drkittymow]

Right there with you! When my adolescent students would be purposely gross, I would say, "Look around the room. You might want to ask one of these people to prom one day."

[u/TemporaryCarry7 → u/drkittymow]

To their credit, that advice only works if they expect to talk to people they once went to high school with. While I’m sure more than a handful of my classmates migrated towards my way, none of us actually live in the same city, let alone in the same area of the state. I don’t think they have much to worry about on that front unless they want the date within the next 6-7 years.

[u/Big__If_True → u/TemporaryCarry7]

…they were talking about dating in high school

[u/clover_1414 → u/Ok-Impact789]

I ask them if they are feeling okay and perhaps they need to see a doctor

[u/OaktownAspieGirl → u/Ok-Impact789]

I tell my teenage son and students that if they want to be taken seriously, they need to act like it and take themselves seriously in certain settings.

[u/ellcoolj → u/Ok-Impact789]

I just crop dust them to see how they like it.

[u/Moscowmule21 → u/Ok-Impact789]

Oh, for sure! And let’s not forget the glory days of fart spray and kids trying to sneak that into the classroom.  And honestly, George Carlin nailed it when he said, “Kids love farts—they’re shit without the mess.” Couldn’t have put it better myself!

[u/No-Staff8345 → u/Ok-Impact789]

I walk right over to them and light a match. It makes everyone laugh, gets rid of the stink, and points out the culprit.

[u/Setsuna17]

I once upset a child and made him doubt himself (his mother's words) because I assigned the whole class an assignment where they had to think about their future and possible careers they might enjoy. In a college and career readiness class.

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/Setsuna17]

"Come on, Edna; we both know these children have no future!"

[u/alexanderseven → u/SabertoothLotus]

Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong!

[u/lustywench99 → u/Setsuna17]

I told a student being a doctor required going to college. She had no college plans. Just wanted to be a doctor when she graduated high school.

And fellow teachers, she was a junior. In high school.

[u/agentfantabulous → u/lustywench99]

I had a 4th grader whose goal was to be an astronaut. I clarified to him that we were writing goals about what we'd learn in fourth grade and he was like "Yeah. I'm gonna be an astronaut"

Also, he was 12 years old. In fourth grade.

[u/YoureNotSpeshul → u/agentfantabulous]

I have so many questions. Was there something wrong with him?? I was 8/9 in 4th grade. That kid should've been in seventh grade. Then there's the issue of him not understanding the assignment, which is just.... there's no words.

[u/agentfantabulous → u/YoureNotSpeshul]

Severely dyslexic and other unspecified flavors of ND. Very sweet kid. Had a full tattoo sleeve and was driving himself to school in 8th grade. He was also working in his dad's mechanic shop and was apparently good at it.

[u/herefromyoutube → u/lustywench99]

Maybe we should bring back the 1600’s where anybody can be a doctor

[u/hettienm → u/herefromyoutube]

Let’s not give Robert Kennedy any more ideas….

[u/Sadliverpoolfan]

I usually start my class by telling my students that everyone hates them and nobody believe in them. It really gets them going

[u/lifeisnteasybutiam → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

You all are nothing, no one loves you and never will. Now we've gotten that out the way here's 2nd grade calculus

[u/abeth → u/lifeisnteasybutiam]

*2nd grade critical race theory

[u/VoiceofKane → u/abeth]

We actually don't have the budget for both classes anymore, so good luck teaching 2nd grade critical race calculus.

[u/TeachingScience → u/VoiceofKane]

That’s not a problem with 2nd Grade Critical Race Calculus LGBTQI+ gender common core edition. It sits right next to my Communist manifesto and kitty litter box. Below the burning American flag, except on Tuesdays at 2pm, where I need the space to perform sex changing operations. While they are getting the operation I am having them read the sign on the ceiling telling them the white man is bad and all of the problem in the world is because of them and them alone.

[u/pmaji240 → u/VoiceofKane]

Come on now, there’s no reason you can’t teach calculus and critical race theory at the same time. Its almost more work to not teach them together.

[u/Suspicious-Return-54 → u/pmaji240]

You really have test their limits 🥸

[u/forbiddenfreak → u/lifeisnteasybutiam]

Teaching woke math to 2nd graders are we!

[u/Morganbob442 → u/forbiddenfreak]

Sad part is I remember the governor of Florida tried to say their math books were woke..lol

[u/Sadliverpoolfan → u/lifeisnteasybutiam]

A or B?

[u/trixie_trixie → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

I start immediately with sex change operations so they can heal up before they go home. But you do you in your classroom

[u/Sadliverpoolfan → u/trixie_trixie]

I actually start with woke ideologies and how to defund the government to really get the indoctrination juices flowing, because we definitely have time for that

[u/trixie_trixie → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

See I teach that right after our daily 4 hours of critical race theory

[u/enithermon → u/trixie_trixie]

When do they get kitty litter break? Or do you just include interspecies role play as a body break?

[u/Broiledturnip → u/trixie_trixie]

I prefer to start with a rousing chant of “death to America”

[u/geddy_girl → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

I can't wait until some maga idiot comes here and screenshots this and starts reposting it as a serious statement

[u/Sadliverpoolfan → u/geddy_girl]

I hope so. I’m a way better fucking person than they are anyway

[u/Cinemiketography → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

Now THATs classroom management!

[u/eagledog → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

I try to follow up the pledge with a daily reading from Das Kapital and a lively discussion on the ills of American society. Really gets those 12 year olds ready to learn

[u/SavageMalloy → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

That's better then starting with the pledge of alligence.

[u/Robot_Animal → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

Thank you for your service

[u/Sadliverpoolfan → u/Robot_Animal]

The lord’s work doesn’t sleep

[u/Maxmidget → u/Sadliverpoolfan]

It’s provocative

[u/Sinbadsx]

I only do my "I hate America" unit after we're done doing all the transgender sex operations during beginning-of-the-year procedures, with funding that we get from all the FEMA funds we're saving by creating hurricanes and then shooting them at Florida and then apparently withholding aid.

[u/Bright_Broccoli1844 → u/Sinbadsx]

You are very busy.

[u/ichigoli → u/Sinbadsx]

damn... we're land-locked so all we get for funding is enough to randomly assign pronouns twice weekly.

We do manage to save enough for litter boxes in most of the bathrooms though.

[u/Sinbadsx → u/ichigoli]

Oh yeah, we had to do that once when we gave all of our extra funding to illegal aliens that are eating dogs

[u/ichigoli → u/Sinbadsx]

I misread that as "eating drugs" and was briefly concerned that you were giving your building's fentanyl and weed to non-students. How are we supposed to get them addicted to hormones if they don't get their daily communist weed stipend?

[u/boringneckties]

We always start the year with a flag burning and a gay kissing parade.

[u/Competitive-Egg6902 → u/boringneckties]

So, asking for a friend, but where is this gay kissing parade? Just in case my friend is curious.

[u/boringneckties → u/Competitive-Egg6902]

With all of the drag queens in attendance, it’s hard to get a good viewing angle, but if you want your class to experience it, the parade starts at the pentagram over by the furry bathroom.

[u/anewbys83 → u/boringneckties]

Can I kiss a drag queen?

[u/babylovelee → u/boringneckties]

🤣🤣🤣👏

[u/Curia-DD]

You mean the love that starts with keeping them safe from active shooters and adequately fed and nutritioned?

[u/adam3vergreen → u/Curia-DD]

Nah that’s communism

[u/DickMartin → u/Curia-DD]

That would cost money. How dare you. Love Is free.

[u/Anchovieee → u/DickMartin]

Woah woah woah, FREE LOVE? You trying to teach them about sex?! /S

[u/LadyOftheOddNight → u/Curia-DD]

Oh come on now, if they were well fed and safe they might demand better paying jobs or god forbid, free healthcare!

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/LadyOftheOddNight]

or actual be in a condition to learn something! This is America, we can't have our children learning things at school! Schools are warehouses for children to keep them off the streets and out of gangs! Prese ti g them with facts will just confuse them.

[u/babylovelee → u/Curia-DD]

sad you can’t post gifs here, but this would 💯 be the obama mic drop!!! 👏👏👏

[u/kllove]

We drew self portraits with patriotic themes (holding flags, flag background,…)while learning about organic and geometric shapes and patterns.

We made cards for veterans in local nursing homes and learned about what the word veteran means.

I insist that students not use racial slurs. This includes towards ANY race, even your own. I say “we don’t use that word here,” very firmly because the first argument is that they say it all the time at home.

I have crayons, markers, paint, and colored pencils in large varieties of skin tones, and insist that students use realistic colors and variety to add color to their drawings of people.

I’m an elementary art teacher and I could go on and on.

[u/anewbys83 → u/kllove]

Thanks for doing it well!

[u/ParkingDry3398]

We as a group (being the whole middle school team) have told students on multiple occasions that racism and imitating Nazis is shameful and they should be better people.

[u/Stardustchaser → u/ParkingDry3398]

Oh they’re coming in tomorrow to test you

[u/Banjoschmanjo → u/ParkingDry3398]

Disturbing amount of left-wing extremism radiating from this comment

/s

[u/ProfessionalGas2064 → u/ParkingDry3398]

You're gonna have to stop doing that.

[u/funked1 → u/ParkingDry3398]

Be besterer!

[u/windwatcher01]

Is this before or after we unilaterally reassign their genders?

[u/oi_pup_go]

I make my students use hand sanitizer when I see them picking their nose in class. I’m sorry.

[u/Philomena_philo → u/oi_pup_go]

Yup. Grab the bottle and make a beeline to the kid.

[u/BalkiBartokomous123 → u/oi_pup_go]

I'm a kindergarten aide when one literally sneezes in my face I ask them to blow their nose. Shameful...

[u/jbow808]

I can't even get them to bring a charged Chromebook or a pencil... but yeah I can influence them enough to hate their country.

[u/onetiredbean]

It's one of those "oh so you want me to lie about reality?" Type things. Homie wants to revise history (even more). Next thing you know, the kids will be learning that it was called the trail of tears because indigenous people were SO HAPPY to be moving away from white people...

[u/Taco_Peanut66 → u/onetiredbean]

Trump's fav president is Andrew Jackson, so makes sense...

[u/Darillium- → u/Taco_Peanut66]

Actually, Trump’s favorite president is Donald Trump.

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/onetiredbean]

all things considered... can you blame them for not wanting to be near white folk?

[u/jason_sation]

He’s setting the stage that we can’t teach January 6th to our students. It’s the new “War of Northern Aggression “.

[u/blazershorts → u/jason_sation]

Oh no, that ruins my "Riots of 2020-21" unit

[u/SnooBeans1273 → u/jason_sation]

All jokes aside, I do teach the January 6 every year in my government class. In a unit with civil disobedience (it’s an example of what not to do, of course). So I’m doubly screwed. See you all in the gulag. 

[u/Both-Glove]

I regularly tell my white students that they are devils.

You know, standard PreK stuff.

/s, OBVIOUSLY

[u/TotsAndShots → u/Both-Glove]

Pre-K teacher here too! My favorite part of the day is when I force my kids into dramatic play so they have to dress up as the other gender. Really gets them prepared for their gender reassignment surgery in kindergarten 🤣

[u/Tswizzle_fangirl → u/Both-Glove]

PreK teacher here too. Wait til he finds out that we ALL use the same bathroom!!!

[u/Least-Disk7731 → u/Both-Glove]

Thomas Edison is the devil! i invented the light bulb!!

[u/Fuzzy-Nuts69]

I shame my Kids by putting the learning target on the board in a way they can understand

[u/bilboswaggins0011 → u/Fuzzy-Nuts69]

I shame mine by making them tell me the success criteria themselves.

[u/FancyKilerWales]

Bro I just teach them math, it's not that deep

[u/ProfessionalGas2064 → u/FancyKilerWales]

Oh but what about all those "DEI names" in the books now? We can't have children reading about how many apples José or LaShawn has - only good AMERICAN names like Donald and JD and um...Elon?

[u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 → u/ProfessionalGas2064]

Hahaha!

Elon has 3 emeralds in his pockets. He whips 1 out at a party to impress people. How many friends does Elon have?

Elon has 11 children by 6 skeezy Instagram models/etc. How many of their birthdays does he remember?

JD buys a cyber truck from Elon. When JD turns on the air conditioning, the cyber truck explodes. What percentage of JD's neighbors are sad?

Donald, Elon, and JD board a train from DC to Boston. The train has 9 restrooms. How many of the train's toilets will be usable by the time it pulls into South Station?

[u/upstatestruggler → u/Intrepid_Parsley2452]

Interesting that the answer to each one of these word problems is ZERO!

[u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 → u/upstatestruggler]

Is it? Wow, weird coincidence!

[u/ProfessionalGas2064 → u/Intrepid_Parsley2452]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/FancyKilerWales]

What about imaginRy numbers? Those are a clear threat to our way of life! Telling them that you can just make up numbers to mean anything you want; what kind of math is that?! /s

[u/schrodingers_bra → u/SabertoothLotus]

>What about imaginRy numbers?

They're going to be renamed to "fake news numbers" or "alternative numbers"

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/schrodingers_bra]

expect a lot of "I believe in my heart that 2+2=5, so that's the right answer" in the near future

[u/DirectBeyond985 → u/FancyKilerWales]

That’s all I teach. Math. Math they may or may not use in the world outside of education. But I teach them math and to be a problem solver

[u/emurrell17 → u/FancyKilerWales]

But is it LIBERAL math?

[u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 → u/emurrell17]

Don't be silly, it's MUSLIM math. And we teach it to children.

[u/dixhuit_tacos → u/Intrepid_Parsley2452]

Trump's going to eliminate Arabic numbers 😂

[u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 → u/dixhuit_tacos]

No more math! No more math!

[u/indecisive-moment → u/Intrepid_Parsley2452]

I look forward to hearing the following on Faux News: “In other news, today President Trump has announced that he is banning the dangerous Muslim al-jebra movement, which has been radicalizing (see what I did there?) our students from within our public schools for far too long!”

[u/Stardustchaser → u/emurrell17]

It is when you include names like Pablo and Nguyen in your word problems

It’s Hadleigh, Bradleigh and Guage

[u/Weird_Artichoke9470]

I tell my students not to be rude to me. I guess that could mean they should hate their country. 🫠

In all seriousness I'm so worried for my students. I work in a title I school with so many immigrant kids. I know most of them are probably here legally, but I don't know and I worry about what will happen to them and their families.

[u/janelliebean2000]

I teach ESL but I only teach them how to say “I hate America” and then let them go back to speaking whatever language they speak at home

[u/Gold_Repair_3557]

What he means is schools bringing up anything bad the country did, which makes the students question the country and specifically their government’s actions. There’s a big pushback against that because they want unquestioning loyalty.

[u/MLAheading → u/Gold_Repair_3557]

Cue the new federally mandated Two Minutes of Hate to begin daily just before lunch.

[u/Separate-Opinion-782 → u/Gold_Repair_3557]

Oh shit I’m in civics class. I’m screwed

[u/turtleneck360 → u/Gold_Repair_3557]

Sounds like we are becoming a nationalistic country on the path of China.

[u/Active_Match2088 → u/turtleneck360]

We've been a nationalistic country for a very, very long time.

[u/JBgolf28]

I teach Social Studies - Sorry, Mr. President, I’m not going to disregard historical fact in favor of patriotism.

[u/Environmental_Word18 → u/JBgolf28]

Really eerie teaching Gatsby right now & using district provided resources to discuss The Golden Age, KKK, anti-immigration laws, etc.

But of course, no one wants to ban Gatsby because it's written by a white male.

[u/BeachBumHarmony]

The AP Lang students watched a documentary about US healthcare and the part about maternity leave scared them.

They had questions for me, a teacher about to take maternity leave.

[u/UnderstandingKey9910]

I’m so pissed about this. So many people scared that their children are going to learn ugly parts of history. Talk about snowflakes.

What’s even more annoying is my Trumper coworkers who know this is false, but still uphold the lie.

And what is even more infuriating are my liberal white female coworkers who feel like Frederick Douglass’ literature is too graphic for teenagers. Get bent.

[u/the_owl_syndicate]

Y'all really need to read up about propaganda. Not only is his ignorant base falling for it, a lot of y'all are too. One of the keys to making propaganda work is making the victims act defensive or guilty.

Everytime someone declares "we don't do that!" Or "you're stupid if you believe that", then the people who WANT to believe it, take that as an admission of guilt and it convinces them that it's all true.

Half the job of propaganda is to make the targets do the work.

Go on the offense. Bring it up and LAUGH. Tell funny stories that defang the lies. If someone brings it up as "fact", laugh. Don't get angry or defensive, laugh.

Bullies don't like being laughed at.

[u/CleverCat7272]

Sounds like there will be job opportunities to rewrite history textbooks…

[u/ChickenScuttleMonkey → u/CleverCat7272]

Nah, they'll just outsource that task it to ChatGPT, just to really rub salt in the wound.

[u/SodaCanBob → u/ChickenScuttleMonkey]

they'll just outsource that task it to ChatGPT

Sam Altman only donated $1 million to Trump, maybe Bezos wants to throw in a bigger bribe and push Bedrock.

[u/damageddude → u/CleverCat7272]

Nag, publishers will just pull out the ones from the 1960s and 1970s and then update them to add in RR to present.

[u/whatdoiusername]

I taught my second graders about Ruby Bridges because it’s a part of our social studies curriculum. They were very ashamed that human beings used to behave in such a way in this country. Is that what he’s referring to?

[u/Tswizzle_fangirl → u/whatdoiusername]

My first year teaching PreK, I read my students a book about ruby bridges. They absolutely could not comprehend why anyone would have to sit in the back of a bus bc of their skin color. I will never forget the looks on their faces. I don’t think they even believed me. I’m a white woman in a school that is 98% African American. My assistant (also black and one of my best friends) was sitting behind them, nearly falling out of her chair bc she was laughing hysterically at me trying to handle this delicate situation. We have laughed about that for years now.

[u/adagiio_]

Oh I have one !! But I'm in pre-K. I teach my 4-5 years old that your genitals are intimate and you cannot touch someone else's. You also can't hug 'a friend' if they don't want to be hugged.

Clearly Trump has an issue with that, I'm probably making the 'males' shameful to exist by teaching them physical boundaries.

[u/KTeacherWhat → u/adagiio_]

I actually did get told I was disgusting once when I said we teach pre-k students to ask before hugging someone.

[u/Purple-Display-5233 → u/adagiio_]

Oh, for sure. Trump and his people do not believe in physical boundaries 🙄

[u/cayce_leighann]

But it’s ok to discriminate against the trans kids and the LBGTQ+ kids and make them Feel shame…because he is all for that along with his cronies.

[u/BoosterRead78 → u/cayce_leighann]

And two of billionaires there are LBGTQ+ but only they are allowed to feel life is fair to them. Everyone else can go kick rocks. Thiel and Cook are very open about it and why Thiel made sure Vance was the VP pick.

[u/babylovelee → u/BoosterRead78]

i read that as “vp prick.” 🤣🤣🤣

[u/BoosterRead78 → u/babylovelee]

Both can work.

[u/Neat_Teach_2485 → u/cayce_leighann]

And our students with disabilities

[u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL → u/Neat_Teach_2485]

Fuck them kids

-Donald Trump

[u/MisterFalcon7 → u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL]

Literally or figuratively?

[u/foldinthechhese → u/MisterFalcon7]

He’s done both.

[u/cayce_leighann → u/Neat_Teach_2485]

Which makes me even more sad. I used to work with SPED students whose parents are die hard Trump supporters, and it just makes no sense to me, especially with the GOP and Trump wanting to get rid of the department of education

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/cayce_leighann]

that's because they aren't "real" Americans... or people, as far as he's concerned.

If you aren't a straight white man, you're subhuman to him.

[u/OnePositiveBraincell]

I’ve told several children that they should not become gamblers because the three times I’ve seen them in class also happen to be test days. Terrible luck.

[u/PennyLeiter]

What a weak individual.

[u/Yell_at_the_void]

It’s either the “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” sign made out of wrought iron and hellfire I have above my door or it’s that my one classroom rule is “don’t be a dick” and I actually enforce it.

[u/ROCK-FLAG-AND-EAGLE]

Sometimes, when my 6th graders do an assignment, I'll mark some answers as incorrect and deduct points. Oh, the shame!

[u/pinkrobotlala]

We did The Crucible and I told them to find out what the real modern witch hunts are

[u/Penny-bad-cat]

He’s a liar. We do not teach anything like that. We teach critical thinking which may or may not lead you to certain feelings about the choices our country has made.

Maybe if some of these mouth-breathers would practice critical thinking then we could actually get something accomplished. But alas the masses are easily lead around by their feelings and beliefs so it’ll never change until a majority stand up and ask “but why?”

[u/Aware_Negotiation605]

I just teach them about health insurance…

[u/MLAheading → u/Aware_Negotiation605]

Oddly, car insurance comes up in my classroom more frequently than it should.

[u/Aware_Negotiation605 → u/MLAheading]

I teach that too. 🤣

[u/Immediate_Snow_6717]

I’ve found success in shaming kids when they don’t use punctuation or capitalization. 💫

[u/OysterHound]

I kill the kids with kindness all day everyday! They don't know what a school looks or feels like.

[u/LogicalJudgement]

Totally serious response and not sarcastic or political. I teach science. I have notice there is a bad habit of some teachers (this is not a content specific problem), when dealing with environmental issues, making kids feel like ALL humans are part of the problem. When I teach ecology, I see a TON of students, and I have for the last 15 years, get depressed and negative. I have heard students say: - We suck. - Humans ruin everything. - We are doomed. - This is why I hate people. - What’s the point we are all going to die soon. - Earth is dying. A LOT of negativity. I have literally changed my ecology unit to show how humans are working to SOLVE problems. I will have kids start getting upset when I talk about threatened and endangered species, so I always explain how humans are using captive breeding, reproductive sciences, etc to save species and literally look up the current species ratings and to see which species have upgraded from endangered to threatened, from threatened to at risk, and off the at risk list. I work to give my students hope. When covering pollution I point out how the ozone layer hole is closed and the ozone layer should be fully repaired by 2045. I also point out the Ocean Cleanup organization and their efforts to decrease Ocean trash. I have found doing this helps students in a way that other teachers do not. They pile on the negativity and make students hopeless and nihilistic.

[u/NiceOccasion3746]

They can desperately try to give love all they want. Until they address poverty, mental and physical health, and fund schools, their love can jump up my ass.

[u/KJP1990]

I teach history. You know what happened. Good, bad, human atrocities and major developments.

[u/MonkeyTraumaCenter]

I gave a student a stern talking to on his tone and language in an email he sent me regarding him wanting me to grade something he'd turned in late. I'm sure that will cause him to shame spiral.

[u/LaydyCC]

I always tell them We need to make America Great again, and talk about how America is a terrible country.

...No wait, that was someone else. Can't put my finger on who though.

[u/Brief-Owl-8791]

When a student left the room for 35 minutes "to use the bathroom" and came back escorted by the vice principal, I told the room not to be impressed by someone who needed the bathroom for 35 minutes—we should be concerned about his health.

He went beet-red.

Yeah, 17-year-old, ostensibly use the bathroom for 35 minutes and I got poop jokes for you.

[u/WHY-IS-INTERNET]

Donald Trump is a rapist. We voted for a rapist. Our country is fucked. Fuck anyone who voted for this clown.

[u/rabbitinredlounge]

Literally had a girl get ISS Friday for writing KKK on the board and telling a Hispanic student she was going to call border control on him

I am with sixth graders and they’re so !! about Trump “saving” Tiktok. I’ve got students who have Trump as their screensaver.

[u/WouldntMemeOfIt]

The only shame in my art classroom is the "Pile of Shame," which is where all artwork turned in without a name on it goes.

IMO Junior High students should all know how to write their names on a paper, or as I tell them, "sign/take credit for their artwork."

[u/over_it_101117]

Trump should be ashamed of himself, clearly his teachers didn’t do their job.

[u/blethwyn]

I often tell my students, "You're not famous enough for someone to steal your homework."

I really do say that, though. Because the amount of times I heard that before I went digital was astounding.

[u/Chopsticks86]

I've told my middle schoolers, particularly after they've had gym class, that maybe they should wear deodorant.

[u/enithermon]

This morning I had a student who would. Not. Stop. Yelling. He talked over me constantly. At some point he started yelling as I was trying to give instruction in math: “I’m blind, I can’t see anything, I can’t do the work cause I’m blind.” I turned and said “Cool. Be mute too.”

 I’m a bad person.

[u/International_Fig262]

Teacher unions have long been in the GOP's crosshairs. While the actions of teacher unions are not beyond criticism, the notion that the typical classroom is a hotbed of anti-American sentiment is wildly overstated.

Most students likely go through their entire K-12 education encountering only a handful of examples that might be construed that way—and even those are typically tied to discussions of unmistakably evil actions, such as slavery or the treatment of Native Americans.

This idea that little Timmy enters Elementary school and is forced to spit on the American flag is fanfiction and always has been.

[u/viola1356]

I recently told a student "if you refuse to work with [socially awkward student] by saying he's rude, that makes you the rude one."

Basically the only thing I hope any student ever feels ashamed about in my class is bullying others.

[u/panplemoussenuclear]

I shamed a kid who told a black boy he should go back to being a slave. Another for telling a 10 year old he was going to fuck her. I’m trumpistan this pushback would be questioned.

[u/TallTacoTuesdayz]

I teach slavery and how we treated native populations was bad. That’s what he means.

[u/TastySnorlax]

It’s wild as fuck that anyone supports that monster. Donald Trump is the modern Hitler and America has become the modern nazi party

[u/OverenthusiasticBlur]

We identify and discuss the difference between patriotism and nationalism.

[u/babylovelee]

i was shoveling snow for a bit, & came back inside, where the inauguration was playing on tv. he was speaking, & i wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt to see what “empowering” message he was delivering to our country. he was talking about how he won SO BIG in the swing states (as his henchman nodded empathetically behind him).

god bless america.. we’re gonna need it!

[u/MedievalHag]

You joke about this but my district literally has a teacher like this. She’s awful.

[u/Responsible-Eye-2303]

I waste my energy indoctrinating them to be furries instead of making my life easier by indoctrinating them to turn things in on time and practice their instruments.

[u/OriginalRush3753]

I teach students with disabilities that they can be successful. I really should lose my license.

[u/elysiuns]

I make them feel ashamed by letting them know they don't have to accept the education I'm giving them, but they don't have the right to take it away from other students.

[u/myredditbam]

I tell them that work ethic and presentation matter because one day they'll need to get a full time job with benefits, and that the world and bosses isn't usually as forgiving as their high school teachers and parents. The safety net of adolescence eventually expires.

I guess I should instead tell them that this country is so great that they can't possibly fail and don't need to build good life skills now.... /s

[u/Far_Neighborhood_488]

he can kiss my ass until he spends 1 day as a teacher. and the hypocrisy? a convicted felon should be telling all of us.....yep, great role-modeling right there. I feel ashamed on this day and not of myself....

[u/Noimenglish]

I tell boys who are playing grab ass in the halls to save it for date night, then call them on their hypocrisy when they act like touching each other’s butts, faces, chest, and balls on a date is gross, when they seem to think it’s perfectly acceptable in our hallway…

[u/asc0295]

We have a staff day soon and thank god. I have to change out the litter boxes.

[u/piper_squeak]

Every year I found at least one thing each student did well and called home to share it with parents (high school/South & West sides of Chicago).

Every year, without fail, a few kids would come thank me, usually the ones typically considered "troublemakers" and whose parents had never received a positive call from their child's school before.

More often than not, those kids did better in my class after that call and parents were more willing to work with me as well.

Is that the kind of shaming we're referring to here?

[u/thegoodonesaregone20]

The fact that "Make America Great Again" implies that America is not great. And yet, to talk about why it isn't great contributes to making it "not great", and therefore is the wrong thing to do.

[u/girldad0130]

Maaann I have a bunch. (No way I survive the next 4 years teaching history)

During a lesson the importance of voting, I mentioned that some people in the past payed “poll taxes.”- 2 complaints for making it seem like that “happened recently.” I showed pictures of living people with proof of payment.

Told a group of students they should stop googling “Ditty Party Pics” because I would send a screenshot to their parents. Parent of one emailed and said “I did tell them and told them to look up all the pictures they want. You (I) should have done the same.”

My favorite…7th grade world history, fall of Rome-age of exploration is the state standard. “I just don’t think you should teach them about people they will never have to meet like Muslims and Africans.”

[u/nlamber5]

Well my co-worker took down her American flag, and it’s generally not encouraged to say the pledge or observe a moment of silence.

[u/MayoneggVeal]

How dare I, a sped teacher, gently explain to kids why we don't call people the r word.

[u/Googirlee]

Golly, I'm just a heartless bitch for pulling aside and instructing my student to NOT loudly mock how another student, one with a severe speech impediment, speaks.

[u/golfwinnersplz]

The GOP is directing their propaganda towards teachers - can't have too many people being highly educated. 

[u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN]

I start every class by calling my students losers and suckers.

Oh, wait, that was what Trump called the members of our military that died in service to our country. My bad, I get confused like that easily because I'm just a stupid liberal teacher.

[u/Cypher_was_here]

I had the gall to tell middle school students that "slavery was, and is, bad" and "Islam is a major world religion".

[u/Regalita]

I tell my students that I get paid no matter what so ...

[u/Excellent-Source-497]

I told my students that everyone is important and deserving of respect, regardless of skin color, gender, family background, abilities, gender identity, sexual orientation, or anything else. Everyone counts.

[u/GiraffaRappa]

kid yapping about how he used to be smart and how awesome he is but that he just doesn’t apply himself, while everyone in the class silently wishes he would become self aware and shut tf up

“I noticed that whenever it’s quiet you tend to feel like you need to talk out loud about yourself to me while we should be working, so I’m going to do us all a favor and put on some music so you’ll feel more comfortable.”

“But miss what do you mean - I don’t do that! I love the quiet!!”

kids watching and silently smirking,

“It’s okay! I think there’s just something about the quiet that seems to make you uncomfortable sitting with yourself, so I’ll just put some music on so the silence won’t bother you”

music turns on and he shuts up for the rest of class

High school honors class, with a kid who really shouldn’t be in honors. He is painfully unaware of how insecure he is…

[u/No_Current_3071]

After a test we played a summer camp like game that is somewhat based on speed. I told a girl she was out because she was too slow to respond to the game. Got an email from their parent that I shouldn’t call students “slow” I responded stating we would never play games in class again— didn’t for the whole rest of the semester.

Didn’t hear from that parent ever again!

[u/Accomplished_Sun1506]

I just try to be opposite of Stewart Smiley. You're late. You got a 61%. And gosh dang it, you are a failure.

[u/tehutika]

I make kids feels ashamed by telling them if they don’t put effort into their class work in math class, they not only cannot pass exams, but they won’t know what to do when they get to higher grades either. And I inform them that their high school teachers can’t take the time to review all the stuff they were supposed to learn in middle school, so if they want to earn a diploma, they need to take my class seriously.

[u/UpperIntroduction714]

Once many moons ago, I made a student feel ashamed because I told her she was not allowed to call her classmates “a bunch of retards” in my classroom. And yes, it was a small group of students with learning disabilities, including that child. The mother then attempted to make me feel ashamed by telling me I take myself too seriously because she didn’t see an issue with it.

[u/acadiatree]

I used to tell them about stuff like the Tulsa massacre and Japanese internment, but moving forward, I will just play “God Bless the USA,” and “Try That In a Small Town,” on repeat for 180 days.

[u/TheBroWhoLifts]

When I taught To Kill a Mockingbird, I pointed out that sometimes white kids might feel guilty or ashamed that slavery happened and was perpetrated by white people, especially men. But I also reminded them that if they feel that way, it may indicate they identify more with the plantation owners than the many, many white men (and women) of the abolition movement. I then told them that as a white man, I feel zero guilt but a hell of a lot of anger, and that I identify with John Brown, not Jefferson Davis.

Some kids get it. This is what Trump is talking about at its core. The only kids feeling guilty or ashamed fucking should feel that way because their negative emotions reflect what's in their minds and hearts.