“Biden to teachers: ‘They're not somebody else's children. They're yours when you're in the classroom.’”
What PolitiFact found
Biden was talking about educators’ responsibility to their students and urged them to treat kids in the classroom with care, as if they were their own children. He told teachers students were "like" their own.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Republican National Committee (The national arm of the Republican Party.) made this claim around 27 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Republican National Committee has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.
Related checks
- FactCheck.org: Distorts the Facts“President Joe Biden said children “don’t belong to parents” when they’re in the classroom.”