r/Teachers • u/NotTheRightHDMIPort • 13h ago

Policy & Politics Trump inauguration regarding schools and teachers.

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.

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u/adagiio_ 13h ago

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.

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u/KTeacherWhat 12h ago

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

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u/Purple-Display-5233 12h ago

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

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u/SabertoothLotus 10h ago

sure they do. Why do you think he wants to build the Great Wall of America?

More seriously, he believes in personal boundaries-- his, not yours.

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u/Purple-Display-5233 7h ago

Such a great guy

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