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   From: losers@dnc.org   
      
   With President Donald Trump nearby, and celebrated teachers,   
   too, Kelly Holstine knelt in protest Monday as the national   
   anthem played at the college football championship game in New   
   Orleans.   
      
   Given the opportunity, she had to take a stand for the   
   marginalized and oppressed, Minnesota’s 2018 Teacher of the Year   
   wrote in a tweet that night that also included photos and the   
   Martin Luther King Jr. quote, “No one is free until we are all   
   free.”   
      
   The protest has been the subject of national news stories since,   
   but the statement was not without precedence for Holstine. Last   
   spring, she was one of two teachers — the other being Kentucky’s   
   Teacher of the Year — who boycotted a White House visit with   
   Trump.   
      
   She said then that the administration’s policies defied her   
   belief that every student matters.   
      
   Holstine is a gender-nonconforming lesbian who last summer   
   stepped down from a teaching position at an alternative high   
   school in Shakopee to serve as director of educational equity at   
   OutFront Minnesota, the state’s largest LGBT rights organization.   
      
   In the days before Monday’s game, a “TED-Ed” video featuring   
   Holstine was posted during which she spoke of being a tomboy who   
   was bullied and how she wished she could go back to tell that   
   girl how she would learn and grow and be given opportunities to   
   help keep kids safe — and also be one of the first teachers to   
   boycott a visit with the president over discriminatory policies   
   and practices.   
      
   Educators must be advocates, not just allies, she said.   
      
   In a story posted Wednesday on the Hill website, Hol­stine said   
   she knew in advance that Trump would be on the field and, after   
   consulting with other educators and her wife, decided to kneel.   
      
   She added that she respected the choices made by educators who   
   stood beside her.   
      
   Her tweet that night brought some criticism, including a   
   football fan’s comment: “Glad you won’t ever teach my kids.”   
      
   But she got plenty of support, too. Among those who retweeted   
   her was Jessica Dueñas, the Kentucky teacher who joined her last   
   spring in boycotting the White House visit.   
      
   Plenty = 1.  Yeah, that's some quality teaching and journalism.   
      
   http://www.startribune.com/former-state-teacher-of-year-kneels-   
   at-college-football-championship/567060482/   
        
      
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