Posted on 05/10/2016 8:20:32 AM PDT by bkopto
he 2016 presidential campaign has hardly lived up to the ideal of a civil exchange of ideas facilitating a peaceful democracy. But a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center suggests that the acrimony from the campaign trail may be having a broader, negative effect on society — particularly in American schools. An online survey of 2,000 educators – one that the center notes wasn’t scientific – found half saying they witnessed an increase in “uncivil political discourse” during the 2016 campaign. Two-thirds of respondents said their students – particularly Muslims, immigrants and children of immigrants – openly expressed concerns or fear about what might happen to them or their families after the election.
“Muslim children are harassed and worried. Even native-born African-American children, whose families arrived here before the American Revolution, ask about being sent back to Africa,” the group said in a report.
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The teachers’ comments, about children’s fears and a subsequent rise in bullying that parallels much of Trump’s hate-filled rhetoric, are striking.
“Students who had undocumented family members and relatives are afraid of what other kids will think of them if they find out. One [fourth- grade] student reported that she thought everyone hated her because her mother was illegal and she didn’t want to come to school. Over 35 percent of our students are Mexican. I’ve never had this ... before this year,” wrote an elementary school teacher in Vancouver, Wash.
The campaign rhetoric has also fueled an uptick in bullying, teachers in the survey said, observing that students seem “emboldened” to use increasingly inflammatory statements and engage in name-calling. Years of work on anti-bullying campaigns which had seen results, they say, is being undone.
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Good grief. Guess we should start noting that everything that happens is Trump’s fault. Bet Bush is glad there is a new whipping boy in town.
A few lines was enough to have me form a conclusion about this article: utter drivel. Doesn’t the authoress have any sense of shame?
No propaganda from the SPLC is worthy of belief.
and an increase in micro aggressions against Trump.
Excuuuuse me! But the level of bullying has risen exponentially since the cult of OBAMA took over!
SPLC are nothing but communist apologists for the failed government and failing government school system. They're blaming Trump for why our schools are a wreck and for why the government failed big time!
As for Immigrants and Muslims, most of them are part of the problem! YEAH they should be scared! The American people are fed up! We've had enough of their antics! When Trump gets elected, going to city hall and playing the race card wont save them anymore! Its either Love it or leave it! No green card no mi casa!
Have we reached ‘Peak Bush’? Bush’s fault is now over?
Homelessness actually went up under Obama, but since he is not George W Bush, no one mentions it. You could attribute this increase in bullying to SJW, BLM, and Obama’s rhetoric, but who would want to be fair?
Good thing we have a candidate who has on the full armor of God!
Stopped reading right there.
Conservatives have always been the targets of evil Leftist bullies who had the backing of their unionized teachers. Paradoxically, this bullying may actually be a good thing for the individual conservative’s development, as it helps build character and self-reliance.
You got that right! Obama caused me to become a racist.
Nope. Libs only ‘fight’ for just-us. Conservatives bully. See the difference? Yeah, me neither. I wonder what the difference will be between the gopE convention and the demoncrat convention as far as riots and trouble making.
Right you are! The idiot who wrote this drivel should be stripped of any right to teach a child. There are far too many stupid wimps in the world. Let the fittest survive. That’s nature’s way.
The feller has a “legacy” before he’s even elected? How does that work again?
Have you ever noticed that almost none of these leftist opinion hit pieces allow for comments. Honest people should welcome other people’s opinions.
The SPLC is a vile HATE Group.
They hate Christians, decency, and morality.
Kids don’t know him and he has had zero impact in education, so the whole story is BS.
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