Jeff Session: Disabled Kids Are Most Irritating Problem For Teachers in America Today

[TexasTowelie]

The problems with America’s public education system…Underpaid teachers? Poor funding? Poor parental engagement? Restrictive and oppressive laws regarding minority neighborhood schools?

Nope. None of that, according to Donald Trump’s Attorney General pick, Jeff Sessions. Back in 2000, Sessions, before the Senate, argued that while it’s good for schools to accommodate disabled students, it had “gone too far:”

“… we have created a complex system of federal regulations and laws that have created lawsuit after lawsuit, special treatment for certain children, and that are a big factor in accelerating the decline in civility and discipline in classrooms all over America. I say that very sincerely.

Teachers I have been talking to have shared stories with me. I have been in 15 schools around Alabama this year. I have talked to them about a lot of subjects. I ask them about this subject in every school I go to, and I am told in every school that this is a major problem for them. In fact, it may be the single most irritating problem for teachers throughout America today.”

According to a Huffington Post report:

Sessions’ comments about disabled students appear to be drawn from his own experience as Alabama’s attorney general. In the mid 1990s, Sessions fought school equality after a judge ruled on behalf of about 30 of the state’s poor school districts who sought reforms. The case continued to languish in the courts while disability advocates worried that the poorest school systems didn’t have enough to fund the bare essentials for special needs students, according to a New York Times account. The case ended in 1997 ― after Sessions won a senate seat.

What a swell guy.

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[Gabi Hayes]

1. having been immersed in my 20th year in a K-8 school system, I can ASSURE all that

the "most irritating problem" (what an ASShole he is for calling a serious issue like this an "irritating problem&quot is the fact that the teaching profession is undergoing an assault by the privatization movement on ALL fronts, particularly the wave of for profit charter schools, whose chief goal (aside the profit grail, of course), is to blast the teachers' unions from the face of the planet, and to render those that still exist powerless. with the new summative evalutation programs currently being installed wherever unions exist, the idea of tenure protection has pretty much gone the way of the outhouse

[lindysalsagal]

5. Inept politicians are always my biggest problem. Followed by lazy, mean entitled

smart kids.

For the most part, disabled kids are doing the best they can, and are not making things more difficult. Now, their parents, sometimes are a problem, but it's rare that the kid is.

[mythology]

2. Thankfully he's Attorney General and not Secretary of Education

Oh wait, the Secretary of Education is a completely unqualified idiot too. Well crap.

[demtenjeep]

3. um nope

as far as kids go it is the selfish entitled brats that make us nuts


but the big issue is the disconnect from admin to classroom expecting more with less

[Solly Mack]

4. Piss poor excuse for a human.

[CentralMass]

6. +1

[Alice11111]

9. +1000. I filed a complaint against him.

[roamer65]

7. He's a Putin loving traitor.

[ProudLib72]

8. Here's a solution

Increase the education budget so that schools can afford to give disabled kids better access. Also hire more aides.

[RealityChik]

10. He needs to...

have his mouth washed out with soap. No...make that bleach!

[WinkyDink]

11. Run, Jeffy, RUN!