Sponsored by the National Education Association Webinar Teachers were encouraged on Wednesday to oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration reforms, saying their goal was to make students in the U.S. illegally “less afraid.”
“Currently, there are laws prohibiting immigration agents from venturing onto school property, so many in the Trump administration would like to have that lifted,” said Jennifer Berkshire, author of “The War on Education.”
Trump said his focus will be on targeted deportations of violent criminals who enter the country illegally, including Arrest terrorists and cartels first.
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“Teachers, including aspiring educators, have a real role to play in having conversations with these groups and figuring out … what we can do within our schools to try to make these kids feel less uncomfortable,” Berkshire said. So scared.”
She also named Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who september says He wanted to put a Bible in every school in his state.
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“The reality is, whether it’s schools, school boards with book bans or extremist candidates or Ryan Walters types, you know, insisting that teachers teach from the Bible or lose their The certifications, uh, are getting more and more, and it does feel like a circus,” Berkshire said.
The National Education Association is an organization with more than 3 million members. Their President Rebecca S. Pringle formerly known as The Trump administration is “cruel, deceitful, and corrupt.”
Chelsie Acosta, chair of the NEA’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and an American Civil Liberties Union board director, said she “cares” about her community.
“When I started…with the ACLU, it was during Trump’s first term, so it’s a little bittersweet…we’re now in his second term,” Acosta said. “I didn’t expect that we would ”
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The webinar was opened by Caitlin Ehlers, a member of the NEA Aspiring Educators Program and Board Director of the Washington Student Education Association, with a message of thanks.
“We begin by acknowledging that we meet on the traditional lands of many First Nations, lands that participants call the lands where they live and work. I address all of you on the traditional lands of the Duwamish people, these lands Elliot Point is governed by the Aboriginal Treaty,” Ehlers said.
“We honor the first people of this land and all of their elders, past, present and emerging, and we are called to learn and share what we have learned about tribal history, culture and contributions that Suppressed in telling the American story.”