Students are anxious about Trump, so the L.A. public school district started a support hotline

The Los Angeles Times ^ | d | Joy Resmovits

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Los Angeles Unified School District has set up a hotline and opened “extended support sites” to respond to a high level of student anxiety about the election of Donald Trump as president.

Parents and teachers learned about the new resources in a recorded call Monday from district Supt. Michelle King.

She said the aim was to answer students’ questions and address their worries “about potential impact on them and their families” and “to provide you with emotional support, enrollment and attendance information and referrals to outside resources,” according to a transcript of the call provided by the district. The message was distributed in English and Spanish.

The support centers are in local district offices and in the Hollywood field office of Board of Education President Steve Zimmer. They’ll be manned by district staff from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays without any additional hires, LAUSD spokeswoman Barbara Jones said. The hotline, which will be answered weekdays, is (866) 742-2273....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hasn't this gone far enough? Did the South set up stations to counsel plantation owners when that notorious free soil candidate was surprisingly elected president?

[al baby]

This is just so frickin silly

[Pearls Before Swine]

Release the therapy dogs!

[jennychase]

This is Teacher’s union theater.

[exDemMom]

This is ludicrous. Utterly ridiculous.

But perhaps it is a teaching moment. The first election I voted in, I voted for Carter. Reagan won. I believed all the hysterical hyperbole said about Reagan, and waited for the world to end. It didn’t. Eventually, I realized that the hyperbole was never based in any factual analysis of what Reagan would do as president.

Right now, we see the left making all kinds of fearmongering predictions about Trump. But we’re seeing the reality that everything he has done so far is about protecting and creating jobs—hardly the actions of the Hitlerian socialist that the left paints him as. Eventually, at least some of these kids will realize that the left has been manipulating them.

[ari-freedom]

Here’s a better support line. It’s called ROTC

[FlingWingFlyer]

Snowflakes. Geez. I hope we don’t have any big wars in our future.

[Terry L Smith]

Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is another example of your schoolboards spending taxpayers’ money willy-nilly.

[RoseofTexas]

They oughta just skedaddle from the union! Heck I’ll even sign their petition to secede!

[RoseofTexas]

They oughta just skedaddle from the union! Heck I’ll even sign their petition to secede!

[muleskinner]

It’s nice we have the phone number. heh heh

[Mears]

I was a kid when WWII broke out——my father had died 2 years earlier-——no support groups,no hotline,and no feeling sorry for myself.

All kids were treated like that-—stop whining and go out and play. :-)

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[forgotten man]

I am tempted to call them a leave a message. Call now at 866-742-2273 and give them a comfortable message.

[Mean Daddy]

What’s the number? I want to call because I have anxiety from all the winning Trump is going to do.

[Eddie01]

1 800 IMA PUSY

[BunnySlippers]

As a lifelong native Angelino, I am upset and anxious about the LA Unified Public School District.

Please send me a GOLDEN LAB puppy for a service puppy.

[BunnySlippers]

i am looking forward to the LA Public School District, which routinely terrorizes LA’s citizens to send me a cute puppy “service dog”.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I grew up in Chino. My 5th Grade teacher was a Baatan Death March survivor and my 6th Grade teacher had just returned from Vietnam.

[al baby]

The good old days

[hanamizu]

Maybe not so silly from the student/parent point of view. I would imagine that a sizable percentage of the L.A. Unified School District student population are not citizens/green-card holders, ie legally in the country. Of course, Trump’s election and promise to send lots of them back is worrisome for them.

And if they all went back to where they legally belonged, there would be a lot of empty classrooms with no need for teachers/administrators. The district gets paid for every kid in class and the state likely pays more of taxpayers’ money if the kid isn’t English proficient or handicapped, so in a way an illegal alien is worth more to the district than a citizen.

I don’t doubt that the administrators actually do think America is a better place the less Anglo it becomes—hey they’re California liberals, but the dirty little secret is that having lots of illegals is in their financial best interest.