Trump to skip National Teacher of the Year award ceremony
Source: Politico
President Donald Trump is expected to take a pass on handing out this year's National Teacher of the Year award honors forgoing a tradition that dates to President Harry Truman.
This year's award winner is Rodney Robinson, a social studies teacher in a juvenile detention center in Richmond, Va. Robinson will be honored Monday by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on the White House grounds, a DeVos spokesperson said.
Nancy Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the Council of Chief State School Officers, which organizes the program, said in an email that it's the council's understanding that Trump won't be in attendance. She said that while U.S. presidents have often given out the award, the group is aware of at least nine other instances when someone else such as the vice president or first lady has done so. The award program started in 1952.
Last year, Trump awarded the honor to Mandy Manning, who teaches English to refugees and immigrants in Washington state. At the White House event, Manning handed Trump a letter from a Rwandan immigrant student that urged the president to take care with his language about immigrant and refugee communities. She also wore a pin that read Trans Equality Now.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/26/trump-skip-national-teacher-of-the-year-award-ceremony-1386862
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Friggin stupid p.o.s...Maybe cohen can sit in for you..Apparently he understands your scholastic achievements..
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)llmart
(15,552 posts)He'll probably be available for the "Grifter of the Year Award".
It may even go to one of his kin.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)...longest seated multimillion dollar tax cheat judge.
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)My Name is Url
(43 posts)I for one am shocked!
cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)He thinks most of them are Democrats. He's probably right.
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)Rebl2
(13,551 posts)deserve to give that award out anyway.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Teachers of the year?
They get to sing Happy Birthday to Donald's nudie model wife.
http://www.care2.com/causes/trump-delivers-slap-in-the-face-to-award-winning-us-teachers.html
dhill926
(16,355 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)From one crook to another...
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)...... ..........
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)3rd grade public teachers are union thugs that must be fought.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)It is this former first grade teacher union thug they should be afraid of!
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)Nitram
(22,877 posts)rpannier
(24,338 posts)Not sure that's any better
The silver lining, at least both of the deformers won't be there
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)- The Art of the Deal
murielm99
(30,761 posts)and everything else?
Yeah, he uses his brain all right.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)why he got shipped off to military school.
betsuni
(25,613 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)I would certainly hate it if my child had to undergo the heinous, ruinous presence of drumpf. He's not really the president anyway so it demeans the process with its presence.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)He doesn't like people who know stuff.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Hope once-Republican teachers who still have to decide how or if they will vote take note.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)He is such a friggin coward. Only can go to groups that will worship him, like the NRA or CPac.
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)that whoever wrote the caption under the photo must have flunked spelling?
And
Trump doesn't belong anywhere near a school, anyway. Neither does de Vos.
Yeehah
(4,591 posts)She is an evil person, rotten to the core.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And shameful how he acts to the teachers of this country by doing this.
sarabelle
(453 posts)deserve to give this award.