>You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its most vulnerable members—like its children. The ancient Egyptians thought children were [gifts from the gods](https://academic.oup.com/book/47196?login=false), and that they were protected by deities. Early West African cultures thought children were the [reincarnated spirits](https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/babies-as-ancestors-babies-as-spirits/) of their ancestors. The U.S. showed what it thought about its children on December 14, 2012—the day of the Sandy Hook School massacre.
>Many of us thought that the image of crying, blood-spattered 6 and 7 year olds, marching-in-train across a school parking lot would finally convince America’s gun owners to concede to meaningful gun reform. Nothing happened. Instead, the shootings continue, and gun violence has grown to become the [No. 1 killer of children in America](https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens).
>A similar indifference seems to inspire President Donald Trump’s recent decision to gut the staff of the [U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services](https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5572489/trump-special-education-department-funding-layoffs-disabilities), the federal agency responsible for protecting and caring for children with disabilities. The Office of Special Education is tasked with supporting and monitoring state compliance and strengthening special education services covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([IDEA](https://www.weareteachers.com/what-is-idea/)).
>This assistance includes support for children with autism, blindness, deafness, emotional and developmental disabilities and students with orthopedic impairments. The funding pays for paraprofessionals to help children with autism function and adapt to general classroom environments. It pays for braille textbooks, and special computer equipment designed for the blind. It ensures that deaf students have access to teachers with sign language skills. And it pays for specially designed desks and chairs to meet the special orthopedic needs of the disabled. Without such support, millions of children would be unable to access the academic opportunities that all American children are entitled to as citizens of this country.
>But supporting special education programs has another, intangible, benefit that is available to all Americans regardless of age or physical condition: the emotional well-being of knowing that they live in a country that cares about its children, even though American attitudes toward gun ownership may indicate otherwise.
When Republicans yell out “think of the children”, what they really mean is think of the Christian nationalists children.
Republicans don’t care about children other than to turn them into either future Christian child soldiers or broodmares to continue propogating their Christian army. They don’t care about children having autonomy outside of their beliefs.
Reminder: 40% of homeless youth in the United States are LGBTQIA+. That should tell you that Republicans don’t care about kids, since they kick their kids out once they come out.
Yep. The Republican war on children is sad. They want their voters to remain stupid.
MelodicArtisan on
Children with special needs have no place in the maga world. The elderly, the poor, the disabled, the sick, none of them are any use to reich wingers so they couldn’t care less what happens to any of them.
literallytwisted on
Lets be honest here! Its the wealthy who are actually gutting everything since they own the politicians, The 1% are addicts that will kill us all if it makes them slightly richer.
Addicts only care about their fix not the future, Overall that’s where most of this country’s problems start and any real solution must begin with taking control away from the 1%.
BenNitzevet on
America doesn’t care if its children get shot at their schools. You’re surprised it doesn’t value special ed???
Additional-Software4 on
Other than more money, at the expense of kids, how else is Jeff Bezos short bald ass supposed to keep impressing his ex model wife?
Buck_Thorn on
No it doesn’t. American does care. Trump and crew don’t.
darth_helcaraxe_82 on
America doesn’t give one single fuck anout it’s children.
OliverGunzitwuntz on
NOT Americans, Republicans!
SoundSageWisdom on
Well, they couldn’t be bothered to help the kids over guns so what made you think they would for this?
cozycorner on
And yet they want us to have more babies.
Promethia on
America likes its children uninformed and vulnerable.
Cyndakill88 on
Good bye extra math and reading class, hello lower test scores
Taman_Should on
Many of our so-called leaders can barely be arsed to care about kids dying in school shootings, nothing new.
Brave_Shoulder_8706 on
Because everyone is to busy sucking up to Trump to care about the Special Ed kids
sapaterson on
No, it shows us that Trump and his enablers will break any law that gives them a moment atop the social media news cycle. Special Education is enshrined in the Disabilities Acts of 1972. The term “least restrictive environment” guarantees the rights of students with disabilities. DJT thinks he can take all that “savings” and put it into a slush fund because he and his sycophants don’t know how the government works.
C__S__S on
Idiotic title.
Rich people love educating their children. They just don’t care about the poors.
Let’s stop confusing ‘America’ with the Oligarchs.
They’ve brainwashed enough.
m0j0r0lla on
Wait until you see our infant mortality rate
LurksAroundHere on
Yeah re-electing and cheering on a child rapist was a pretty big canary in the coal mine on that.
tarhuntah on
How little Republicans think of American children.
PrincesStarButterfly on
We’re only five-ish years away from the Turd Riech purging people with disabilities as “Unproductive members of society”. It’s coming and people act like that’s a crazy notion. Watch for it.
BisquickNinja on
How little Republicans think of the children…
OkMode3746 on
America? You mean the right wing conservatives? You mean the republican party.
Subject-Relation-352 on
Soooo they weren’t special after all?
EchoAquarium on
Republicans love children. They love them. It’s touching.
They love touching them, I mean.
ghallway on
It’s true. The richest country in the history of the world hates kids. The army doesn’t have to hold bake sales to buy stuff. Schools are like the ugly step child in america, we all say we care, but try to raise a millage and look what happens. There’s always money to build jails, but new schools, fuck that.
Ok-Hat6778 on
This Sandy Hook sequel in slow-mo: ignore gun deaths, defund the disabled. Republicans’ “family values” = family bankruptcies.
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>You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its most vulnerable members—like its children. The ancient Egyptians thought children were [gifts from the gods](https://academic.oup.com/book/47196?login=false), and that they were protected by deities. Early West African cultures thought children were the [reincarnated spirits](https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/babies-as-ancestors-babies-as-spirits/) of their ancestors. The U.S. showed what it thought about its children on December 14, 2012—the day of the Sandy Hook School massacre.
>Many of us thought that the image of crying, blood-spattered 6 and 7 year olds, marching-in-train across a school parking lot would finally convince America’s gun owners to concede to meaningful gun reform. Nothing happened. Instead, the shootings continue, and gun violence has grown to become the [No. 1 killer of children in America](https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens).
>A similar indifference seems to inspire President Donald Trump’s recent decision to gut the staff of the [U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services](https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5572489/trump-special-education-department-funding-layoffs-disabilities), the federal agency responsible for protecting and caring for children with disabilities. The Office of Special Education is tasked with supporting and monitoring state compliance and strengthening special education services covered under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ([IDEA](https://www.weareteachers.com/what-is-idea/)).
>This assistance includes support for children with autism, blindness, deafness, emotional and developmental disabilities and students with orthopedic impairments. The funding pays for paraprofessionals to help children with autism function and adapt to general classroom environments. It pays for braille textbooks, and special computer equipment designed for the blind. It ensures that deaf students have access to teachers with sign language skills. And it pays for specially designed desks and chairs to meet the special orthopedic needs of the disabled. Without such support, millions of children would be unable to access the academic opportunities that all American children are entitled to as citizens of this country.
>But supporting special education programs has another, intangible, benefit that is available to all Americans regardless of age or physical condition: the emotional well-being of knowing that they live in a country that cares about its children, even though American attitudes toward gun ownership may indicate otherwise.
When Republicans yell out “think of the children”, what they really mean is think of the Christian nationalists children.
Republicans don’t care about children other than to turn them into either future Christian child soldiers or broodmares to continue propogating their Christian army. They don’t care about children having autonomy outside of their beliefs.
Reminder: 40% of homeless youth in the United States are LGBTQIA+. That should tell you that Republicans don’t care about kids, since they kick their kids out once they come out.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TOPJkS0Sto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TOPJkS0Sto)
Yep. The Republican war on children is sad. They want their voters to remain stupid.
Children with special needs have no place in the maga world. The elderly, the poor, the disabled, the sick, none of them are any use to reich wingers so they couldn’t care less what happens to any of them.
Lets be honest here! Its the wealthy who are actually gutting everything since they own the politicians, The 1% are addicts that will kill us all if it makes them slightly richer.
Addicts only care about their fix not the future, Overall that’s where most of this country’s problems start and any real solution must begin with taking control away from the 1%.
America doesn’t care if its children get shot at their schools. You’re surprised it doesn’t value special ed???
Other than more money, at the expense of kids, how else is Jeff Bezos short bald ass supposed to keep impressing his ex model wife?
No it doesn’t. American does care. Trump and crew don’t.
America doesn’t give one single fuck anout it’s children.
NOT Americans, Republicans!
Well, they couldn’t be bothered to help the kids over guns so what made you think they would for this?
And yet they want us to have more babies.
America likes its children uninformed and vulnerable.
Good bye extra math and reading class, hello lower test scores
Many of our so-called leaders can barely be arsed to care about kids dying in school shootings, nothing new.
Because everyone is to busy sucking up to Trump to care about the Special Ed kids
No, it shows us that Trump and his enablers will break any law that gives them a moment atop the social media news cycle. Special Education is enshrined in the Disabilities Acts of 1972. The term “least restrictive environment” guarantees the rights of students with disabilities. DJT thinks he can take all that “savings” and put it into a slush fund because he and his sycophants don’t know how the government works.
Idiotic title.
Rich people love educating their children. They just don’t care about the poors.
Let’s stop confusing ‘America’ with the Oligarchs.
They’ve brainwashed enough.
Wait until you see our infant mortality rate
Yeah re-electing and cheering on a child rapist was a pretty big canary in the coal mine on that.
How little Republicans think of American children.
We’re only five-ish years away from the Turd Riech purging people with disabilities as “Unproductive members of society”. It’s coming and people act like that’s a crazy notion. Watch for it.
How little Republicans think of the children…
America? You mean the right wing conservatives? You mean the republican party.
Soooo they weren’t special after all?
Republicans love children. They love them. It’s touching.
They love touching them, I mean.
It’s true. The richest country in the history of the world hates kids. The army doesn’t have to hold bake sales to buy stuff. Schools are like the ugly step child in america, we all say we care, but try to raise a millage and look what happens. There’s always money to build jails, but new schools, fuck that.
This Sandy Hook sequel in slow-mo: ignore gun deaths, defund the disabled. Republicans’ “family values” = family bankruptcies.
I could tell be hope Americans treat teachers.