President Donald Trump has been on a rampage against public schools and colleges all week, threatening to use the power of the federal government to strong-arm officials into reopening classrooms.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, whose prominent study on the importance of reopening schools was repeatedly touted by administration officials this week, criticized Trump’s threats to withhold money from schools as aThe pediatricians, in a statement with teachers unions and school superintendents, also pushed back on Trump’s focus on schools providing in-person instruction, seemingly without any regard to the intensity of the pandemic in a community.
In Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence, the Republican state schools chief also responded to threats to cut funding to schools amid the pandemic in aon Friday. “Students deserve an unprecedented federal investment in resources not cuts or diversion of funds,” said Jennifer McCormick.
Elsie Arntzen, the Republican superintendent of public instruction in Montana, said in an interview on Friday that she supported the Trump administration’s approach. She said that she didn’t view Trump’s comments about school funding as a threat to take away money.
Look at the moron in charge of it, he put people in charge of departments, that hate those very departments. Way to destroy everything from the inside. They are all like rotten termites just eating away at our freedoms and quality of life.
Believe it or not , even Republicans care about the welfare of their children !
Keep on doin’ what you’re doing, Donny, it’s working — even GOP groups are turning on you, and there’s not a better group for you to alienate than parents of children forced to return to unsafe schools. Keep up the great work, Mr. One-termer!
Wow! So some semblance of common sense still exists in this country?
WE MUST OPEN SCHOOLS! GovRonDeSantis GregAbbott_TX
Our children are the future of America. We have to protect them from Trump. He wants the schools open so teachers will be back to baby sitting. He wants parents free to work. He isn't interested in the well being of children. He just wants his jobs record to look better.
Republican Congress are corrupt. They will go along with anything Dictator says. Republicans don’t care about students. Only re-election.
It’s hardly a rush at this point lol
Meaningful - if the Congressional GOP pays attention to their own supporters.
Political suicidal behavior. Not a stable mind.
Ppl are waking up to the fact that trump is for trump and that is why he continues to walk Americans into the death chambers.
doesn’t he have criminal sentences to commute?
trump should shut up and get out of the way
SUPREMACISTS : Banks-Mc Donald-CocaCola-Apple-Nike-Microsoft-Amazon-Google-Facebook, etc.. American Congress estimates the amount of TAX ESCAPE in USA at $ 5ooo BILLION/year =LESS sanitary-educational-democratic-ecological projects +racism+SOCIAL & FAMILY VIOLENCE +DISASTERS
First Republicans wanted to sacrifice your parents or grandparents for the economy. Now they're coming for your kids to sacrifice so that the president can be re-elected.
You guys are hacks!
If we had an innovative POTUS. Attendees on the call: Architects, Contractors, Scientists, Teachers/Parents, Corp, MDs, State/Gov Agreement: We have 6mos to build state of art covid19 & safe zones.We have funds, commitment, here's how USA schools will reopen
Trump losing! TrumpIsLosing
Complete BS! Children chances of getting coronavirus is almost nonexistence as is the chances they spread it if they did get it! VERY few true Republican aligned organization oppose reopening schools. Only those who are ignoring science are against opening schools AND Country!
Calling bullshit, it’s all political
Without even a peep in opposition from Congressional GOP, nothing will slow Dear Leader Trump’s march to do as Trump pleases, which is never, ever, concerned with the needs & desires of others &/or science.
Euthanasia... Is always a option? GOP just let Donnie realDonaldTrump know it's all about MAGA.
Turns out people actually dont want to die for the government for no reason, imagine that.
Europe is using common sense while American lobbyists and the politicians they buy won't let a crisis go to waste.
Well yes they do, but then again, he’s a complete incompetent imbecile
Are teachers working through the 2021 Summer?
Any administration that would tear immigrant children from their parents arms and cruelly incarcerate them should not decide when your children should return to school. They don’t care one iota about children.
School reopening thing was a bigly distraction from the Russian bounty scandal. It worked brilliantly.
realDonaldTrump fucking POS
Electing Trump is like employing a wolf to look after your flock of sheep and expecting the wolf to miraculously turned vegetarian.
but preschool teachers who make $15/hour... ok for them to care for the children of the retail workers... no outcry there
Instead of asking corporate teachers’ unions whose money fills the pockets of politicians (especially Dems), school districts who save money when schools are closed, and corporate lobbying groups like USChamber, this article should’ve asked parents and students their opinion.
that's because we want to defund the the teachers unions and we should homeschool because leftists have been poisoning children's minds for the past 40 years.
AmoneyResists This will be the death of trump’s campaign. Sadly it’s taking the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans to kill it.
Maybe it is realDonaldTrump who should go back to school...
That's actually a great idea. Parents, educate your kids. Do not let the Left indoctrinate them any more.
Trumpertantrum in 3. 2. 1.
No, Trump is protecting children. They need to be in school.
Parents are not political when it comes to their kids. It will always be safety first for the parents. Trump thinks all Republicans want kids in school and Democrats do not. He is a moron.
the federal government has no constitutional authority to give schools money... and now you know why! The states need to show their independence by cutting the federal government out of any and all funding.
Small government right conservatives?
The TRAITOR has not uttered ONE SINGLE WORD of sympathy to the families of the 134,000 DEAD AMERICANS. What kind of weasel acts like this?
There should be backlash. He’s not basing a fucking thing on science, it’s all fucking sound bites to create a furor and then try to look good on the furor he caused. He can’t do shit about it, throwing stuff out to see what sticks. I’m in FL, everyone knows a positive person
Rampage? Laughable..if the districts would ask for assistance on guidelines for their particular situation, they would receive help..kids will suffer while the blue states twiddle their thumbs and use this for political purposes
OPINION: He's guilty of premeditated homicide that may rise to the level of genocide. We know how he feels about children. Few have forgotten the babies in cages, little girls & boys swept away in the dead of night torn from their parents. Now he's trying to punish parents again.
Any administration that would tear immigrant children from their parents arms and cruelly incarcerate them should not decide when your children should return to school. They don’t care one iota about children.
Keep your children at home if you choose. Send them to school if you choose. They will be safe from COVID either way. But they won’t be safe from mental illness and abuse if prohibited by their parents from returning to school.
This is open extortion. Withholding funds because schools are trying to be safe, with 0 help from this criminal administration.
He would definitely use his son as a test rat without thinking twice on sending him back to school. This is coming from a man that has yet to put a mask on! He does not get it and does not care about children, teachers and families!
Strong arm president? Sounds anti American to me, and a rape of democracy!
Even racist Trump lovers, love their kids.
Destruction of public education is the destruction of the cornerstone of democracy.
just following Putin's playbook
Trump couldn't give a fuck less about America
Is he smarter than a 5th grader?
Unbelievable what GOD is doing in this hour Watch
“Threats are not helpful,” Joy Hofmeister, the Republican state superintendent of public instruction in Oklahoma, told POLITICO on Friday. “We do not need to be schooled on why it’s important to reopen.”
If he cared so much about education, he should have handled the deadly virus that is ravaging his country. Instead he is absent and blaming others.
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