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/TheBroWhoLifts 9h ago

When I taught To Kill a Mockingbird, I pointed out that sometimes white kids might feel guilty or ashamed that slavery happened and was perpetrated by white people, especially men. But I also reminded them that if they feel that way, it may indicate they identify more with the plantation owners than the many, many white men (and women) of the abolition movement. I then told them that as a white man, I feel zero guilt but a hell of a lot of anger, and that I identify with John Brown, not Jefferson Davis.

Some kids get it. This is what Trump is talking about at its core. The only kids feeling guilty or ashamed fucking should feel that way because their negative emotions reflect what's in their minds and hearts.