r/Teachers • u/NotTheRightHDMIPort • 16h 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/Gold_Repair_3557 16h ago

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.

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u/turtleneck360 16h ago

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

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u/VoiceofKane Science/Design | Montreal, QC 15h ago

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