Dear Mrs. trump

Althea

Althea

Althea told me...
Great story about a patriot who isn't afraid to speak truth to injustice. Any time you can bash Betsy Devos, and piss off the orange buffoon at the same time, you're on the right track.

http://www.hbook.com/2017/09/blogs/family-reading/dear-mrs-trump/#_



My students were interested in reading your enclosed letter and impressed with the beautiful bookplates with your name and the indelible White House stamp, however, we will not be keeping the titles for our collection. I’d like to respectfully offer my explanation.
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My school and my library are indeed award-winning. I work in a district that has plenty of resources, which contributes directly to “excellence.” Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an amazing city with robust social programming, a responsive city government, free all-day kindergarten, and well-paid teachers (relatively speaking — many of us can’t afford to live in the city in which we teach). My students have access to a school library with over nine thousand volumes and a librarian with a graduate degree in library science. Multiple studies show that schools with professionally staffed libraries improve student performance. The American Association of School Librarians has a great infographic on these findings. Many schools around the state and country can’t compete.


Yearly per-pupil spending in Cambridge is well over $20,000; our city’s values are such that given a HUGE range in the socioeconomic status of our residents, we believe that each and every child deserves the best free education possible and are working hard to make that a reality (most classrooms maintain a 60/40 split between free/reduced lunch and paid lunch). This offers our Title I school and the district a lot of privilege and room for programming and pedagogy to foster “high standards of excellence.” Even so, we still struggle to close the achievement gap, retain teachers of color, and dismantle the systemic white supremacy in our institution. But hell, we test well! And in the end, it appears that data — and not children — are what matters.


Meanwhile, school libraries around the country are being shuttered. Cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit are suffering through expansion, privatization, and school “choice” with no interest in outcomes of children, their families, their teachers, and their schools. Are those kids any less deserving of books simply because of circumstances beyond their control? Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos? Why not reflect on those “high standards of excellence” beyond only what the numbers suggest? Secretary DeVos would do well to scaffold and lift schools instead of punishing them with closures and slashed budgets.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an amazing city with robust social programming, a responsive city government, free all-day kindergarten, and well-paid teachers (relatively speaking — many of us can’t afford to live in the city in which we teach).
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....taxachusettes
 
Covfefe said:
Who is Melania's assistant on this issue? They should be fired.
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It just shows how removed from reality this admin. is. They choose to award those who least need the recognition, as opposed to doing something that would actually make a difference. They can't help it. Whereas she married an illiterate, they don't know any people who don't live in gated communities.
 
NotAllthere said:
Great story about a patriot who isn't afraid to speak truth to injustice. Any time you can bash Betsy Devos, and piss off the orange buffoon at the same time, you're on the right track.

http://www.hbook.com/2017/09/blogs/family-reading/dear-mrs-trump/#_
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What a pathetic, repugnant partisan dig to someone trying to do something nice. Typical leftist assholes.

Yep; this teacher should be proud to be teaching her gullible charges how to be lemmings and dependent wards of the state.
 
Michelle Obama celebrates Dr. Seuss’ birthday by reading to kids

First lady Michelle Obama celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday Tuesday by reading "The Cat in the Hat" to a group of children wearing red-and-white-striped stovepipe hats like the book's main character.

By NATASHA METZLER - Seattle Times 3/2/10

First lady Michelle Obama celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday Tuesday by reading “The Cat in the Hat” to a group of children wearing red-and-white-striped stovepipe hats like the book’s main character.

Mrs. Obama helped kick off the National Education Association’s 13th annual “Read Across America” celebration at the Library of Congress. The event marked the day that Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel, would have turned 106.


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“Do you know the president of the United States reads all the time,” Mrs. Obama told a group of more than 200 students from elementary schools in Washington and Arlington, Va. “Our girls at home read every single night.”

The first lady said that her daughters, Sasha and Malia, are allowed to stay up 30 minutes later if they are reading.

Some of the first family’s favorite children’s books are “Horton Hatches the Egg,” by Dr. Seuss and “Where the Wild Things Are,” by Maurice Sendak, Mrs. Obama said in response to one of the children’s questions.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan also read “Horton Hears a Who!”

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel led the children in a rhyming pledge to read every day. It began: “I promise to read each day and each night. I know it’s the key to growing up right.”


On Monday President Barack Obama proclaimed March 2 Read Across America Day.

NATASHA METZLER

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March 2nd, 2011
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CNN White House Producer Lesa Jansen

Michelle Obama: happy birthday Dr. Seuss!

WASHINGTON (CNN) - "I do not like green eggs and ham!" exclaimed first lady Michelle Obama Wednesday at the Library of Congress. No this wasn't the latest round in her mission to eliminate obesity in America but instead a push to get children to read.

Mrs. Obama along with Education Secretary Arne Duncan celebrated the 107th birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss by reading one of his most popular books, "Green Eggs and Ham," to more than 300 elementary school children at a Read Across America event.

Wearing festive red and white stovetop hats, from another Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat," the first through third graders sat in rapt attention as the first lady theatrically read her part.

President Obama issued a proclamation declaring March 2nd Read Across America Day. Mrs. Obama confided to the children that the first family reads all the time. "The president is a reader. We call him the fact-guy because he reads so much. He knows facts about everything," she said.The National Education Association sponsors the annual event and predicts more than 45 million teachers, parents and kids will participate through various events across the country showcasing the love of reading. Education Secretary Duncan urged the kids to read not only for their homework but for fun too. "If you become lifelong readers you can do anything you want to do," he said.

Joined by the Cat in the Hat along with Thing One and Thing Two from the Seuss tale, Mrs. Obama waded into the crowd of elementary school children, hugging many.

The children, from schools in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia, later were read stories from dozens of sports, television and media celebrities including Jessica Alba and Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver among others.
 
Stretch said:
Ummmmmmmmmm, I read the entirety of that link that you provided. Ol' Liz says Dr. Seuss books are racist.
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I didn't provide any link. I only made one comment, #12. And even if Liz thinks the book is racist, what does that have to do with Michelle?
 
christiefan915 said:
I didn't provide any link. I only made one comment, #12. And even if Liz thinks the book is racist, what does that have to do with Michelle?
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The OP was from Althea (my bad, got my cats mixed up) But, I guess you didn't read it.

Dear Mrs. trump



Great story about a patriot who isn't afraid to speak truth to injustice. Any time you can bash Betsy Devos, and piss off the orange buffoon at the same time, you're on the right track.

http://www.hbook.com/2017/09/blogs/f...r-mrs-trump/#_
 
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