… the 2018 national winner, Mandy Manning, of Washington, wore several pins to silently protest the Trump administration’s LGBTQ and immigration policies. After the event, Manning also gave Trump a bundle of letters from immigrant and refugee students.
After the ceremony, Trump invited Robinson and other state winners in the Teacher of the Year program into the Oval Office to meet with him, Vice President Pence and DeVos, a White House spokesman said.
“One of my proudest achievements is having five of my former students work as Richmond Public Schools teachers. They are not only great teachers, but several have been awarded and received recognition for their youth development programs. They are not only mentors but parents for their students. When I asked Doron Battle, a former student and exceptional education teacher at George Mason Elementary School, why he runs a mentoring program, he said, ‘I am just trying to do for the next generation what you did for me and my classmates.’”