So my school administrators just sent an email telling us not to slam Trump to the students

[Chasstev365]

Respect, Blah, Blah, Blah.

Funny, I don't remember the same email when President Obama was elected.

[lisa58]

1. Or Bush - or Clinton - or Bush...

Trump spends all his time insulting and disrespecting. What age group are the students?

[GoCubsGo]

2. Which is why you should just damn him with faint praise. n/t

[B2G]

3. What grade do you teach?

And why would any of you need to be told that?

Political opinipns don't belong in the classroom.

[demmiblue]

7. Yeah... I don't get this.

Perhaps this person is not a teacher, but works in a school in some other sort of capacity.

[OhioBlue]

14. Who knows what the context is. It probably wasn't any teacher slamming Trump

It was more likely parents bitching to administration about something they "heard a teacher said"

The things that DT has said and the way he has conducted himself is setting an example to bully. It has to be addressed in some classrooms at some point.

Kids mocking disabled, telling students of Mexican decent they're going to be deported, lunchrooms chanting "build the wall"... all of that was reportedly going on after the election.

[anneboleyn]

15. Two professors in this house -- we avoid politics but this would cause a huge outcry on campus

if professors were told not to "criticize" Trump or say anything at all about politics. But then universities are a very different environment -- still it's hard to imagine high schools or junior high schools ordering teachers not to say anything "negative" about Trump.

[uponit7771]

29. MiniPoot being a text book racist isn't an opinion

[LanternWaste]

40. Accurate and relevant observations are often held as 'political opinion.'

Accurate and relevant observations are often held as 'political opinion.'

It would be impossible for to teach FDR's impact on the nation (or that of any other president) without being interpreted by one or more as 'political opinion.'

But do keep pretending you know what does and does not belong in the classroom.

[Initech]

6. Every single person he picked is the exact person who should not be in that position.

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. Sorry -- I deleted my rant

wasn't appropriate for the thread.

[Initech]

5. I would reply back with the 1st amendment highlighting the free speech part.

Fuck Trump.

[Freethinker65]

8. What an odd reminder? I am assuming a teacher (assuming somewhere K - 12) would know this

[anneboleyn]

17. Yep -- they cry CONSTANTLY about "triggering" when they are the biggest crybabies on the planet

They are now trying to silence any critics of their leader. It is ridiculous.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. My apologies - I misread your thread title

"To the students" was cut off on my phone. I thought they meant at all or amongst yourselves.

i deleted my Betsy DeVos rant above.

[OhioBlue]

12. RIGHT? The superintendents in our area issued press releases to

announce that the schools would NOT show the President's address to students.

[kairos12]

13. What I remember is the email telling students they could opt out of a video when

President Obama talked about educational achievement.

[hunter]

16. Did you send a reply...

Challenge Accepted!

[tenderfoot]

18. copy and paste it

eom

[Jacob Boehme]

19. True Words, True Words

[Cha]

28. Excellent graphic, Jacob..

thank you..

[radical noodle]

20. Probably because they know so many don't like him

unlike the others who weren't hated quite so much. Although most teachers practice a policy of being careful about anything that might seem like partisan talk anyway. Families these days are too quick to make a fuss.

[Cha]

27. Remember this, rad?

Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech

snip//

The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.

Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/

Boo!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. i can't help but think that parents who ask for their kids to be excused from watching

Herr Drumpf speak will be called trouble-makers and have their request denied.

[Cha]

31. Oh yeah.. that would be their MO..

It's ok for dumpfuck to spread FAKE NEWS and accuse everyone else of doing it.



It's like the worst twisted nightmare imaginable but we living it. All I can do is hope the the Cosmos takes over and the Pendulum swings before it too late.. which will obviously entail a lot of hard work on out part.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. I'm willing to do some hard work. The problem I'm having is

that I don't really know what to do.

I don't have a lot of dough to be donating, but I do occasionally make donations to candidates or organizations. (In fact, just came across some records from Obama's campaigns showing I'd donated even more than I remembered, especially the first time--I was soooooo determined not to let the female Trump lite, Palin, near the White House!)

Now I get what seems like hundreds of requests a week for donations, and I really don't know who is going to best use the funds they're raising.

Other than donating the small amount I can, if I figure out who to donate to, I don't know what to do. I really would love for the Dems to finally realize the need to unmercifully combat the RW propaganda machine and enlist us, somehow, to help with a concerted effort.

They need to hire experts to figure out what we can do and to co-ordinate it. I know Dems are supposedly as hard to herd as cats, but maybe we're finally ready for a unified fight.

[Cha]

33. Me too.. I suspect it will present itself

as it unfolds.

I also think when President Obama becomes a private citizen and the DNC chooses their leader things will pop!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

35. When I heard he and Holder were going to work on the gerrymandering problem, I was encouraged.

But more and more I think that's not gong to be nearly enough.

Hoping Obama will lead us in the resistance!

[Cha]

37. I think Obama will have a lot

more on his and his community of organizers' on their plate than just Gerrymandering.. although super important.

Me, too! I think it is all going to make the next four years more bearable.. we'll see.

[radical noodle]

43. Sure do!

They had a freaking meltdown over that!

[LeftInTX]

21. I miss the good old days when we had jam sessions discussed whether we should pull out of Vietnam

and then Watergate. The teacher didn't hold back. (My conservative dad wasn't too thrilled with our newfound liberal values - LOL)

[Cha]

26. Remember this?...

Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech

snip//

The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.

Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/

Boo!

[LeftInTX]

42. Oh my!!!

It must have escaped my attention at the time.

How different than the 70's!!! Even though my dad didn't agree with our newfound politics, he respected our critical thinking skills. He didn't make a stink. He admired us for getting involved with current events.

[TeamPooka]

22. Friends, Romans, Schoolchildren, I come to praise Caesar, not bury him.... nt

[christx30]

23. Something I've brought up a few times

whenever people talk about wanting respect for Trump:

I'm sure the whole birther movement was built on the utmost of respect.

Obama got none from their side. We're just doing our part as the loyal opposition.

[raccoon]

38. Right on! nt

[Lint Head]

24. You have an obligation to the truth for the country.

[Cha]

25. Flashing back here.. When President Obama

spoke on tv about education at the beginning of his term.. didn't some of the gop schools boycott it

Many conservatives enraged over Obama school speech

snip//

The White House said the address, set for Tuesday, and accompanying suggested lesson plans are simply meant to encourage students to study hard and stay in school.

Many conservative parents aren't buying it. They're convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds.

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/

Boo!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Ridiculous, but it's probably part of the right-wing mantra that...

schools are supposedly trying to brainwash kids to be liberal.

There was a right-wing secretary at one of my places of employment who I'd briefly disagreed with on some political issues one day. A few days later when I asked her for some needed supplies, she asked me if I went to college. I replied that I did. She answered, "Oh, that explains your liberal beliefs. You were brainwashed there."

It didn't dawn on her that maybe SHE was brainwashed by right wing propagandists that she followed on AM radio. Not to mention that I had liberal attitudes before I went to college.

[Sid Fishes]

36. Children For Trump

[no_hypocrisy]

39. Training Trumpjugend.

[TCJ70]

41. I wonder what they think of DeVos...

...someone that directly threatens their job.