Teacher of the year who boycotted White House visit to protest Trump says 'I cannot…support people who hate my kids'

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Jessica Duenas of Kentucky and Kelly Holstine of Minnesota were both awarded Teacher of the Year 2019 for their respective states.

Two award-winning teachers boycotted a ceremony at the White House held in their honor in protest of President Donald Trump’s policies.

Duenas, who works as a special education teacher at Oldham County Middle School, described how she could not attend the ceremony in good faith because of Trump’s immigration and LGBT policies and remarks on the Latino community “Privatization is also a threat to the state, and when Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to Kentucky, not a single Kentucky public school education representative was at the table; even students were turned away. I've heard people state, 'This was your chance to tell members of his administration how you feel and you missed it.'"

"My frustrations with the current administration are the messages and actions and policies and words that are shared about the population of students that I work with,” Holstine told a press conference . Another person who did not attend the award ceremony was Trump himself. His decision not to hand over the National Teacher of the Year award to Robinson follows a protest from last year’s winner, Mandy Manning.

 

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TigerWoods

Why should she recognize a racist

You people are sick Who hates your kids certainly not me and not our president 😡😡😡

Newsweek proving once again they are Dem propagandists

she’s teacher of the year what does she teach “how to cut your nose off to spite your face”

Drama queen

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂her loss

Don’t even know your kids but go on with your victim march.

Stop your trump hatred.

does the imbecile know how many kids and grandkids the president have?

One can only imagine the indoctrination going on there...

I believe you people on the left are racist snobs.

you hate the man who is successful not you lady.

Oh, sweet Dixie Lee.

Idiot

Again Newsweek giving someone like this a spotlight shedding more light on the personalities behind the pen.

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