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
(4,373 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
(15,539 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
(22,516 posts)My Name is Url
(43 posts)I for one am shocked!
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)He thinks most of them are Democrats. He's probably right.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)Rebl2
(13,507 posts)deserve to give that award out anyway.
keithbvadu2
(36,806 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
(16,339 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)From one crook to another...
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)...... ..........
a kennedy
(29,661 posts)safeinOhio
(32,680 posts)3rd grade public teachers are union thugs that must be fought.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)It is this former first grade teacher union thug they should be afraid of!
IcyPeas
(21,871 posts)Nitram
(22,801 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)Not sure that's any better
The silver lining, at least both of the deformers won't be there
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)- The Art of the Deal
murielm99
(30,741 posts)and everything else?
Yeah, he uses his brain all right.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)why he got shipped off to military school.
betsuni
(25,526 posts)lark
(23,099 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
(22,801 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
(21,148 posts)He is such a friggin coward. Only can go to groups that will worship him, like the NRA or CPac.
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Ohiogal
(31,999 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
(4,587 posts)She is an evil person, rotten to the core.
samnsara
(17,622 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.