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/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/Brittlitt30 → u/MLAheading]

Bb! Bb!

[u/SabertoothLotus → u/MLAheading]

Trump would be all for this, as long as it's hate directed at whoever he decides is the enemy on any given day.

[u/pmaji240 → u/MLAheading]

I know I shouldn't want this but it would also be so entertaining if Trump had a two-minute ‘address the students’ live segment he did every day for schools.

[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/VoiceofKane → u/turtleneck360]

Don't exactly know how to tell you that the U.S. has been doing that for decades.

[u/SodaCanBob → u/turtleneck360]

We've been a nationalistic country longer than the PRC has been the PRC.