On Tuesday, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon traveled to Little Rock as the first stop in a 50-state journey known as the Returning Education to the States tour.
McMahon took Sen. Tom Cotton and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas on a tour to Don R. Roberts Elementary in West Little Rock, where a few demonstrators had gathered outside. A roundtable discussion that was closed to the media took place after the officials’ classroom visits.
Following their joint interview, McMahon and Sanders beaming into Fox News from the school hailed a new Arkansas legislation that forbids pupils from using cell phones in class as well as Donald Trump’s efforts to abolish the federal education department.
“We are aware that it will have a significant effect,” Sanders stated. Although there was some opposition from students, including some in my own home, I believe it was one of the best things we could do for our pupils.
Only public schools are subject to the Bell to Bell, No Cell Act. The new law has no effect on the Sanders children because they attend a private school.)
Trump appointed McMahon, a co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, to head and demolish the U.S. Department of Education, referring to states as the nation’s labs.
According to McMahon, we have given the states back more authority and given parents greater control over their children’s lives, which is precisely where it should be. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to education, and I believe that curricula in schools should be appropriate for the community they serve.
Carrying homemade protest placards, about six protesters from the organizations 50501 and The People’s Protests and Marches AR assembled on a sidewalk along school grounds.
“It’s just wrong that they’re using these kids as political props,” parent Courtney Jackson said. In addition to purposefully underfunding public education, they are entering public schools, acting as though they care, and playing house.
Jackson and another protester said that they and other parents boycotted Roberts Elementary School on Tuesday.
According to Jackson, they picked one of the whitest and most accomplished colleges, and all they want is for it to appear attractive to their media.
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