Everyone on DU should take a moment and write a teacher

[titaniumsalute]

I have two kids. I'm going to email each teacher tonight from home telling them I support what they do every day and whatever they need from me I am there. They need to hear from US. They need to know WE support them. If you don't have kids find some friends who might know any teachers. Heck deliver some flowers to the local schools tomorrow. They all need an uplift right now. I know. I'm married to one.

[vi5]

1. After 20 years in corporate America I'm almost done with my teaching certification...

..The only upside to this confirmation debacle is after 20 years in corporate America I have more than enough experience with idiots in positions of power with no qualifications and no experience in the area that they are supposed to be managing so it won't be that much of a transition for me.

I was in a roomful of teachers today and the reaction to the confirmation news was needless to say very depressing and sober.

[elleng]

2. Good idea. I do it often,

as my daughter is a teacher, and is home-schooling my grandson.

[crazycatlady]

3. Two of my good friends are teachers

One is totally non political and called Cory Booker to voice her opposition to DeVos. She's who I'm most worried about. She's a 1st year special ed teacher at an urban district. She gets student loan relief if she works there X number of years and I'm worried that's going to be taken away from her.

[barbtries]

4. i have a family full of them.

been discussing - not arguing exactly - with one of them on fb today. he cannot bring himself to condemn the republicans who pushed this travesty of an education secretary on the country.

he's married to my niece and i don't know him all that well, but my theory is he was raised republican and cannot bring himself to disengage in spite of knowing this is wrong. best guess. it's been a real epiphany for me learning that some people are republican before they're american, before they are a man or a woman, before anything at all, they are republican, and no matter how bad it gets, it's baked into their identity to such an extent they cannot or will not break free.

i don't get it. but for whatever reason he is reluctant to admit that the republicans' actions today were not done in the best interests of the country, and they knew that. it all started with me posting, "DeVos is in, and republicans SUCK"

still maintaining civility. he's a good guy, he's teaching a difficult population in a depressed area, but still! he can't acknowledge how terrible her confirmation is, and that the republicans acted in bad faith and against the country's best interests when they pulled it off.

i'm about 85% certain he voted for trump.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. THANK YOU!!!

We get so much negative communication. It's very nice of you to actively send positive words to those people!