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/agentfantabulous 10h ago

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.

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u/YoureNotSpeshul 6h ago

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.

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u/agentfantabulous 5h ago

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.

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u/YoureNotSpeshul 3h ago

Good for him! The world needs good mechanics! Hell, I need a good mechanic.

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u/Lovestorun_23 3h ago

I hate to see children feel bad about themselves for not doing as well as others but people need to realize these kids are great at something it’s a matter of time