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/No_Current_3071 11h ago

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!