Posted on 01/18/2017 3:05:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WILLIAMSTON, MICH. - A Williamston teacher’s decision not to show President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration speech to his students prompted strong reactions on social media after a letter to parents was shared by Williamston graduate and current syndicated radio host Steve Gruber.
On his website, Gruber, who also has two children in the school district, posted an email sent to parents Monday by Brett Meteyer, a fourth-grade teacher at Williamston’s Explorer Elementary School. Gruber said he received a copy of the email from another parent in the district.
In the email, Meteyer explained that the President-elect's comments during the election about women, minorities and the disabled, comments Meteyer characterized as inflammatory and derogatory, left him worried Trump might make similar statements following his inauguration.
“Because I am concerned about my students and your children being exposed to language and behavior that is not in concert with the most conservative social and family values, I have decided to show the inauguration of Donald Trump this Friday, but we will not view Mr. Trump's inauguration speech,” Meteyer wrote in the email.
Meteyer also wrote that his attempts to reach out to the Trump team in an effort to preview the speech ahead of time were unsuccessful.
In his letter to parents, Meteyer wrote that he showed students inauguration speeches made by former President George W. Bush in 2005 and Barack Obama in 2009. He ended the email by saying his plans could change if he hears back from the Trump team.
Meteyer didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
Gruber said he isn’t asking for Meteyer to be fired or threatening to pull his own children from the district. Rather, he said he’d prefer the teacher use Friday’s event as an important lesson for his students.
“He has an opportunity to demonstrate that even when you lose, you come together for peaceful transfer of power. The message to 10-year-olds in his class is that the president is a bad man, and that’s not acceptable,” Gruber said.
Narda Murphy, superintendent of Williamston Community Schools, wrote a letter to families explaining that teachers are expected to teach the curriculum in a balanced manner and “demonstrate good judgment in their communications with families.” The letter also noted that the district won’t comment on specific employee issues.
“Each teacher determines classroom instruction, and we encourage parents to contact them if they have concerns,” she said.
Murphy said the decision to show students the Presidential Inauguration ceremonies is made by individual teachers, not the administration.
Gruber said the district’s statement did little to address concerns, adding that administrators “might as well have issued a blank piece of paper.”
Petty dictator.
No wonder the little mush heads get started in the wrong direction.
But I bet he showed ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ several times over the years.
“...Gruber said....that [district’s] administrators ‘might as well have issued a blank piece of paper.’”
Well said.
Boil him in oil!
STOOPID! Trump won the State of Michigan, but the ‘educators’ refuse to acknowledge or respect that fact.
Trump/Pence will make America Sane Again!
Keep the kids home if possible. Frankly, I do not remember watching any inaugurations at school, but I am over 55. Hubby said he watched one of the moon landings.
Bet they watched the the last two inaugurations, though, and had parties.
Population 3,854.
Frostbite falls, Indeed.
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The swearing in of a new president is an historic event. All schoolchildren should be watching.
I sure hope De Vos lives up to the hype and we see a mass of vouchers forthcoming along with support for homeschooling.
A haiku:
Virtue signaling;
That’s so very ‘16, Brett
You can be replaced!
I teach, and as much as it disgusted me I showed my students 0bama’s inauguration. I never tell my students who I vote for nor why I voted for them.
Publik Skools... SMH
FReepers - pull your kids out of this decrepit system!
Public School is Child Abuse.
This should be the part that should get us upset. This accusation is a complete fabrication by the Hillary campaign and repeated by the media. Ask Meteyer to name one thing Trump said. I'm willing to bet you can trace every one of the "quotes" to disinformation from the Hillary camp.
Yet his opponent, whom he likely voted for, was married to a man who sexually abused women, even sneaking one into the White House to have oral sex with him, and would surely have let his students watch her had she won.
That teacher should be fired.
If the nothing, arrogant teacher has the balls to demand to approve the president's speech before the students are "allowed" to hear it, he should be doing something else. Just who does he think he is?
And if the school district board allows it, they should be voted out of office and replaced.
This should be the part that should get us upset.
Well said!
Fire the teacher. It’s time we did so to even out the imbalance of moronic liberal teachers who brainwash our kids.
So no “mmmm mmmm mmmm Barack Hussein Obama” type songs made for the kiddies to sing at school either then?
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