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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts) Fri Dec 1, 2017, 02:09 AM Dec 2017

Nashville teachers protest Betsy DeVos' agenda after Tennessee visit

Chanting and holding signs calling for her departure, public school teachers and parents gathered by the downtown riverfront Thursday night to voice their opposition to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

"We want the people of Nashville to know that we feel it is really important to send a strong message to Secretary DeVos that we don't agree with what she's doing," said Amanda Kail, a teacher in Metro Nashville Public Schools and advocacy chair for the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, which organized the protest.

"As teachers, we find her budget to be immoral," Kail said of the billions of dollars in education cuts proposed by President Donald Trump's administration. "The amount of money she is cutting from the education budget will have devastating effects on public education."

Earlier Thursday, DeVos spoke to a crowd gathered at the Omni Nashville Hotel for the ExcelinEd conference, an event founded by one-time Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/11/30/betsy-devos-nashville-teacher-protest-tennessee-schools/910917001/

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Nashville teachers protest Betsy DeVos' agenda after Tennessee visit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP

Wow! Go Nashville. Alice11111 Dec 2017 #1

Representative Mike Stewart speaks during a protest against Betsy DeVos outside Riverfront Park in N riversedge Dec 2017 #2

Rare Good news and nice photo Alice11111 Dec 2017 #5

WOOT WOOT! SusanaMontana41 Dec 2017 #3

GOOD! BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #4

Good thing to do. I thank Repubs or Dems when I can. Alice11111 Dec 2017 #6

I did the same after ACA repeal BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #7

I think it makes a difference. I have had a few tell me Alice11111 Dec 2017 #8

I was a teacher and all people of various ages BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #9

Very good things to do. Teachers may be our best hope. Alice11111 Dec 2017 #10

Alice11111

(5,731 posts)

1. Wow! Go Nashville.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 03:11 AM

Dec 2017

riversedge

(81,547 posts)

2. Representative Mike Stewart speaks during a protest against Betsy DeVos outside Riverfront Park in N

Reply to Alice11111 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 04:14 AM

Dec 2017

Great to see their Rep in solidarity with them.

Representative Mike Stewart speaks during a protest against Betsy DeVos outside Riverfront Park in Nashville, Thursday November 30, 2017. (Photo: Alan Poizner/For the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee)

Alice11111

(5,731 posts)

5. Rare Good news and nice photo

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 01:20 PM

Dec 2017

SusanaMontana41

(3,233 posts)

3. WOOT WOOT!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 04:23 AM

Dec 2017

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

4. GOOD!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Dec 1, 2017, 04:35 AM

Dec 2017

She was supposed to come to San Diego soon after she was selected and due to the number of complaints (mine was one of them...former SD Unified teacher) the visit was cancelled. I personally stopped into the School Board meeting to thank the superintendent and the rest of the board.

Alice11111

(5,731 posts)

6. Good thing to do. I thank Repubs or Dems when I can.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 01:22 PM

Dec 2017

I called in a thank you to Corker. I'm not from Tennessee

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

7. I did the same after ACA repeal

Reply to Alice11111 (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 04:53 PM

Dec 2017

and called the 3 who voted "NO" and also the Dem Senator from Hawaii (Hirono) since she came up to DC to vote despite having cancer. I will call Corner Mon. Thanks for reminding me.

Alice11111

(5,731 posts)

8. I think it makes a difference. I have had a few tell me

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 05:59 PM

Dec 2017

that they felt so rejected and isolated, and it mattered a lot that some people understood and appreciated them, even if not of their party or district. It gives them some support to continue.

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)

9. I was a teacher and all people of various ages

Reply to Alice11111 (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 06:16 PM

Dec 2017

need encouragement and positive reinforcement. Besides that, it is good manners and "gentlemanly".
My first graders wrote "Thank You" letters once a week and read compliments to each other daily. Some adults do not set this good example so I had to slip it into my class routines hoping it will be remembered as they grow up.

Alice11111

(5,731 posts)

10. Very good things to do. Teachers may be our best hope.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 06:37 PM

Dec 2017

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