Teacher of the Year Teaches Immigrant Students, Presents President Trump with Letters from Those Students
Before accepting the National Teacher of the Year award, Mandy Manning showed President Trump letters written by her students, many of whom are immigrants and refugees. She also asked the President to come to her school to “meet [her] immigrant and refugee students to see how much they contribute to [The United States].”
The National Teacher of the Year teaches English and math to newly-arrived refugee and immigrant students at a high school in the state of Washington She gave President Trump letters from her immigrant and refugee students at an event in the White House event in her honor.
“I personally handed the letters to him and relayed to him that I hoped he would come out and meet my immigrant and refugee students to see how much they contribute to our nation and he told me that he would try to come out,” teacher Mandy Manning told ABC News.
Manning said the president accepted the letters and directed his staff to put them on his desk where he could read them later. She said while some of the letters are very supportive of the president, others have very pointed messages.
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