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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-845pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.74694dca9bae
One of Melania Trump‘s favorite books is Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”, which she read with her son, Barron, “over and over” when he was growing up.
The first lady, who is increasingly carving out a public profile for herself, chose the classic children’s book and nine other Dr. Seuss titles to send an elementary school in Cambridge, Mass., in celebration of “National Read a Book Day.”
But a librarian at Cambridgeport Elementary School refused to accept the gift, criticizing both education policies by the Trump administration education policies and images in the books.
Seuss’s illustration are “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures and harmful stereotypes,” librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro wrote in a strongly worded letter to Trump on Tuesday.
The librarian wrote that rather than sending books to a well-funded elementary school in Cambridge, Trump should instead be devoting resources to schools in “underfunded and underprivileged communities” that are “marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.” Critics view DeVos, a billionaire who has worked for decades to promote school choice, or alternatives to traditional public schools, as one of the most anti-public-education secretaries in the department’s history.
One of Melania Trump‘s favorite books is Dr. Seuss’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”, which she read with her son, Barron, “over and over” when he was growing up.
The first lady, who is increasingly carving out a public profile for herself, chose the classic children’s book and nine other Dr. Seuss titles to send an elementary school in Cambridge, Mass., in celebration of “National Read a Book Day.”
But a librarian at Cambridgeport Elementary School refused to accept the gift, criticizing both education policies by the Trump administration education policies and images in the books.
Seuss’s illustration are “steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures and harmful stereotypes,” librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro wrote in a strongly worded letter to Trump on Tuesday.
The librarian wrote that rather than sending books to a well-funded elementary school in Cambridge, Trump should instead be devoting resources to schools in “underfunded and underprivileged communities” that are “marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.” Critics view DeVos, a billionaire who has worked for decades to promote school choice, or alternatives to traditional public schools, as one of the most anti-public-education secretaries in the department’s history.
