IVANKA TRUMP SURPRISES NORWALK SCHOOL BUT PARENTS PULL THEIR KIDS FROM CLASS

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek


BY JESSICA KWONG ON 12/19/17 AT 4:52 PM

An unannounced school visit by first daughter Ivanka Trump, intended to be a pleasant surprise, wound up causing some anti-Donald-Trump parents to pull their kids from class.

Ivanka spent Monday morning at the Norwalk Early College Academy in Connecticut talking about the importance of education in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. The first daughter’s visit to the academy was part of her tour pushing for STEM and computer science education in classrooms.

"To see the passion and enthusiasm for bringing real-life skills into a classroom environment, but then coupling it with real-life experience through internship, creates this really beautiful virtuous angle," she said, according to News 12 Connecticut.

But some parents who oppose her father yanked their children from class. They said they received little information about Ivanka’s visit, possibly due to security concerns.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-surprises-norwalk-school-parents-pull-their-kids-class-753093?piano_t=1

[dhol82]

1. Yeah, I would not want my kids exposed to that radioactive entity either.

[iluvtennis]

2. I would have pulled my kids also. Now if the Trump Admin sent engineers,

mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, et al that were worked in the STEM field, I would be all for it.

But exposiing my kids to some phony money grubber who makes her cheap shit in 3rd world countries - no way.

[skylucy]

15. Amen! Well said!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. What does that idiot know about STEM?

And that sounds like an elite place that doesn't need any advice anyway.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. What the hell STEM did she take?

I clearly remember evil RW lunatics screaming about President Obama's video message to classrooms -

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/

They are gonna see the other side of that coin now.

[Miigwech]

5. She should just stick to the private schools in NYC,

the upper East Side, 5th Ave., Madison Ave. .... poor kids don't wanna hear her stick

[Irish_Dem]

6. Thought her father banned science from American government.

Firing and muzzling scientists, banning science words.

And she goes around telling kids to get science degrees.

What the heck does "really virtuous angle" even mean?

[Angry Dragon]

8. SO TRUE

[iluvtennis]

36. +2

[MrPurple]

24. Seriously, he just banned the words 'evidence based' from goernment documents

This is so perverse that you couldn't make this shit up.

[Irish_Dem]

51. In effect he banned all the occupations which are science based.

I know, it is unreal. Like a bad novel.

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. I suspect there has to be a $$$$ angle in it for her.

I'm still chaffed over the pics of her next to Trump, behind the desk in the Oval.side by side, as if we elected her.

Remember when she was challenged at...the UN?...some big GLOBAL do, he was out of sight and she was plopped in the chair behind The Pres of the USA place card.
Someone asked about it, and she claimed she was "saving" his place.
as if other global leaders would grab his seat.

[Irish_Dem]

53. Yes there was some direct benefit for her going to the school.

I remember the events you describe. Can you imagine what would have happened if Michelle Obama or the girls had pulled any of this stuff?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Would that be the same science stuff that her daddy rejects?

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yep, he is gonna have another hissy.

Just as bad as when she made her pedophile comment.

[Angry Dragon]

9. right message, wrong messenger

[HopeAgain]

10. Ivanka promoting science...

Would be like Melania condemning cyber bullying. Oh, wait...

[Kali]

29. !

[Girard442]

12. Dealing with the blonde Trumpspawn aside...

...Secret Service would essentially have locked down the school while she was there. I'd be seriously pissed off my kid was stuck in the middle of all that with no advance notice and no knowledge of what access I'd have to him or her while it was all ongoing.

[disalitervisum]

13. Children of trump are the same as children of the kim-il-suk in north korea

"A beautiful virtuous angle." Fuck you. And that 10 year old they force to wear a suit and tie all the time will be a serial killer someday.

[dixiegrrrrl]

50. At the rate he is growing, he will be as tall as Godzilla eventually.

And Trumpzilla is doing enough damage.

[not fooled]

14. Polishing the turd

iwanna attempting to put some shine on the dump admin while betsy devoid plots behind the scenes to destroy public education.



Oh well, perhaps this is her last chance to look semi respectable before hubby jarhead gets him some felony indictments, to carry on the family tradition of criminal taint.

[iluvtennis]

37. iwanna and betsy devoid - love it :-)

[left-of-center2012]

16. "talking about the importance of education in the sciences"

Like climate change?

[TeamPooka]

17. Norwalk is my hometown. So Proud.

[JDC]

19. There are a couple of great pizza places in Norwalk

Romanachi's(sp?) and a name I don't recall. I mean great pizza.

[TeamPooka]

20. There's a great place called John's Best Pizza that everyone loves.

We have a lot of great pizza places all over Fairfield County.
I always eat a lot of Italian food when I visit home.
Great seafood there too.
We have an Oyster Festival every year that attracts people from 4 states.

[JDC]

21. I'll be down there next month

Will go to John's.

I went to a place called Scarpelli Sausage in Cos Cob/Greenwich last month. Was pretty good.


Thx for the rec.

[JDC]

18. She's promoting STEM?! What sick joke

Maybe she's scouting locations for her father and DeVos to strip funding from or teachers to grind under their heels.

[jmowreader]

22. The Trump version of STEM is a little different than yours or mine

To the Trumps...

S is for Sexual Assault
T is for Tax Evasion
E is for Extortion
M is for Money Laundering

[Kali]

30. good one!

[Egnever]

23. Sorry but that is just stupid

The answer to bullshit is not to run from it. It is to stand up to it.

Just a bad example to set for your children in my opinion.

If our plan is to not show up every time these clowns speak we lose.

[MrPurple]

25. Having your children forcibly propagandized is different than standing up to them

If they're using your kids as a prop, the best thing to do is vote with your feet and remove them.

[Egnever]

26. Nonsense

It is a perfect opportunity to educate your children on propaganda.

These aren't kindergartners these are 8th graders.

I have an 8th grader myself and he knows exactly who these folks are.

The idea they need shielding instead of educating is exactly why we are in the spot we are in today.

I will say it again if our answer to these clowns is to run away instead of stand up to them we are already lost.

[Girard442]

27. I don't think that works. If CNN showed video of your kid asking Ivanka a tough question...

...the threats would come, with no assurance that they'd all be idle. Better to vote with feet. Let CNN show Ivanka talking to a bunch of empty chairs.

[Egnever]

28. Sorry I just have to dissagree

Time to stand up the time for running away and hiding is over. If we do not stand up now we will lose this country.

You don't stop a bully by running away from them. All you do is embolden them.

[Girard442]

31. When our Founding Fathers stood up to bullies, they were prudent enough to shoot from behind trees.

OK, I know that's probably ahistorical, but the principle is still good. Use your head in a fight. Don't fight on turf where the adversary has a big advantage. Remember, the people who didn't show to Trump's inaugural were the one who really cut him to the quick.

[LanternWaste]

45. Standing up by sitting down in an audience denied a Q&A session seems absurdly ineffective.

Standing up by sitting down in an audience denied a Q&A session seems absurdly ineffective. No doubt, you'll supply objective means through which this vaguely defined status of "standing up" prevents a loss of country, and precisely how the walk-outs embolden "them" in this particular instance (we're certain however, you're clever enough to know that anecdotal evidence, as you allowed us earlier, is invalid).

Else it's simply a reading from a series of sentimental bumper-sticker and motivational posters.

[MrPurple]

47. Exactly, Ivanka isn't a legit representative and won't take Q&A, the kids are being used as props

Since this is the administration's photo op, better to leave them with empty chairs. If it was a pre-announced visit with Q&A, that would be a different story.

[turbinetree]

32. This daughter of a sexual predator, gave advice to have Betsy Devos as the Education Sec.....

This daughter of a sexual predator gave advice to have Scott Pruitt as head of EPA

This daughter of sexual predator gave advice to have an asshole attacking employees at the CDC & HHS

This daughter of a sexual predator gave advice to have an asshole take public land and give it to oil companies

This daughter of a sexual predator exploits communist labor to make her rich

This daughter of a sexual predator supports a traitor


And she is not a role model.......................

[murielm99]

34. She is not a role model,

she is a shoe salesman.

[turbinetree]

42. nothing more and nothing less a shoe salesman

a dangerous one at that ......................

[Angry Dragon]

38. Spawn of SATAN

[summer_in_TX]

33. I dunno

Seems to me that if we turn into the kind of people who act ugly we are the losers.

Pulling those kids out doesn't seem at all likely to do anything other than to cause Ivanka and those around her to justify their own ugly actions. It's human nature to try to justify oneself when confronted. Seems counter-productive to me.

Besides, what is it teaching the kids? That it's okay to shun someone?

[mr_lebowski]

40. This isn't shunning some fellow 8th grader for being 'fat' or not having 'the right clothes' ...

Gimme a break.

Yes, it's incumbent on the parents to inform the children WHY they are being removed, and WHY you don't want them used as Ivanka Trump's photo-op props, to be sure.

But to suggest parents shouldn't take this action because it comes off a 'shunning' the Spawn of Satan that is Ivanka ... and cuz it's just not 'nice' to 'shun people' ... is wrong-headed, no offense ... but I must strongly disagree.

[LanternWaste]

46. Courage of conviction

"Besides, what is it teaching the kids?"

Courage of conviction. I can understand though, why many people's biases may deny them that perspective.

[kskiska]

35. I grew up right across from the present Norwalk High School

Good for those who stood up and removed their kids.

[William Postsalot]

39. The Name of the Lecture She Wanted to Give:

"Sleeping With Dad Is Okay When You're Rich"

[oberliner]

41. One parent

[MrsMatt]

43. I can't quite get on board with that action

It reminds me of the time when President Obama recorded a speech for broadcast at schools and the conservatives got outraged at their children having to see it.

[cab67]

44. I was about to write the same thing.

[Sneederbunk]

52. +1

[suffragette]

48. ...really beautiful virtuous angle... What an odd phrase to use when describing education and

internships.

Actually, it’s an odd phrase in itself. What is a “virtuous angle” ?