Posted on 10/03/2016 5:12:54 PM PDT by mdittmar
Educators Discuss How Trump’s Hate-Filled Words are Harming Our Children
WASHINGTON - October 03, 2016 -
Today the National Education Association announced the launch of a digital and direct mail campaign to raise awareness about the harmful effects of Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on America’s schoolchildren. Joined by Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Ohio educator Joy Bock, NEA President Lily Eskelsen García discussed the consequences of Trump’s divisive and derogatory comments in classrooms across the country during a tele-briefing this afternoon.
Educators, counselors and experts on bullying joined together on Monday to participate in events in the key battleground states of Iowa, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania sharing firsthand accounts of the “Trump Effect” in classrooms. Since Trump entered the race for president last year, educators have witnessed a steady increase in bullying and harassing behavior that mirrors his words and actions on the campaign trail.
“As educators, we teach our kids that kindness, collaboration and cooperation are important not just in school, but in in life,” said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García. “Donald Trump sets an example that teaches the wrong lesson. He calls women fat pigs, wants to ban Muslims from coming to the country, refers to Mexicans as criminals, and makes fun of people with disabilities. The rise in vitriolic speech in classrooms and the anxiety this causes for some of our most vulnerable students shows that Trump’s rhetoric is far more damaging than previously imagined.” Trump’s bullying was on prominent display just last week when he debated Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University. Clinton called him out for degrading remarks he consistently makes about women, including comedienne Rosie O’Donnell and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
A recent report by the non-partisan Southern Poverty Law Center, “The Trump Effect,” offers data and firsthand accounts of the candidate’s negative impact. In this new report, more than two-thirds of teachers surveyed said they had witnessed this effect.
The NEA will launch a battleground state campaign to raise awareness of the negative effects Trump’s language and intemperate behavior has on our students, using targeted digital marketing and direct mail to key battleground states with key constituencies.
“Millions of children across our country are watching Donald Trump unapologetically belittle people who are different from him time after time,” Ellison said. “He's sending a disturbing message to our kids and it's sinking in. Reports of bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially toward students of color, Muslim Americans and immigrants.”
Bock, a language arts teacher from suburban Columbus, also provided remarks. Bock is a registered Republican who voted in a Democratic primary for the first time in 2016. She voted for Hillary Clinton.
“As an educator and someone who cares deeply about our children and their future, I see first-hand why I could never vote for Donald Trump,” said Bock. “I start each school year off with lessons on the basics of our government. During a classroom conversation about the Electoral College, one of my students said something that broke my heart. Before the entire class, my student made a startling statement: ‘If Donald Trump wins, I’ll be sent back to Peru.’ I want to be very clear, this 14-year old girl is an American citizen, born in the United States. She has never been to Peru, the country her parents immigrated from. My student told our class that her parents said, ‘it will not be safe’ if Donald Trump becomes president. She shared how scared her family is about the election. Now all of my students are worried that she will be sent 'back.' This very real anxiety and fear I work to calm on a daily basis is not an isolated incident.”
“There is so much at stake in who we choose to be our next president, but this is so much bigger than politics,” said Eskelsen García. “We need a president who will wake up every day with the best interests of our children in mind. Hillary Clinton has proven time and again she is that leader. Donald Trump has proven he is unsuitable to be the type of role model befitting the highest elected office in the world.”
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The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing nearly 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers. Learn more at www.nea.org.
CONTACT: Richard Allen Smith, NEA Communications 202-716-6461 cell, rasmith@nea.org
Bulling is an action brought on by obama and his racist ways.
The Frankfurt School’s Marxist-socialist minions from the 1940’s did a lot of damage, as well. They scooted out of Germany, infiltrated Columbia U, made it their HQ, then forged onward into other teaching colleges, public schools, unions, Democrat party, media, then churches.
Their goal was a slow but steady indoctrination of our children, until we would willingly pull the Socialism lever. They created sensitivity training and consensus building. They had great hopes for Obama, now for Hillary.
A recent report by the non-partisan Southern Poverty Law Center, “The Trump Effect,” offers data and firsthand accounts of the candidate’s negative impact. In this new report, more than two-thirds of teachers surveyed said they had witnessed this effect.
Non-partisan? Tell me another story.
They’ll have to excuse me, but aren’t they part of the we don’t get taxed enough brigade?
100%
The NEA is an anti-America radical association of Marxist vermin.
Both that and the fact Trump just might want the NEA eliminated altogether. Good start I say...
Years ago my son’s teacher brought this anti bully crap into the classroom and was aghast when I told her I taught my kids to punch a bully in the nose and If I ever caught them bullying someone I’d pound him.
Anyone who doubts Hillary being elected would be the death of our nation is crazy.
Thank Mr. Carter every day for allowing Federal Employees to unionize, they’re neck in neck with the NEA.
At long last, these educators have identified the real problem with our sorry public school system: DONALD TRUMP.
Exactly what I was thinking:
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a far-Left legal and activist organization created in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NAACP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration (both legal and illegal), advocates multiculturalism and the homosexual agenda, supports Muslims and racial preferences and defendants’ rights, and advocates against what it considers “hate groups”. In 2012, Black pastors confronted the Southern Poverty Law Center for smearing as “hate groups” pro-family organizations opposed to homosexual agenda.[1] Reverend Dr. Patrick Wooden declared that it is wrong to compare “my beautiful blackness” with homosexual perversion.[2]
The SPLC’s op-ed writings have appeared in the Communist Party USA’s newspaper People's World.[3] This “controversial, liberal organization” [4] has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of racism to stifle conservatives.[5]
Members of the National Education Association can’t spell it!
Ol' Mo' is a Grade A prick. As soon as the non-profit SPLC was throwing off cash, Dees built himself a lavish new home. He walked out on his wife and two sons and moved in with his secretary/mistress. So far, he's gone thru five wives.
His first ex-wife and his sons hate his guts. With reason.
Dees specializes in shaking the Jewish moneytree. Whenever the cash flow at SPLC slows, he'll expose a new anti-Semitic threat -- the Klan, neo-Nazis, conservative Christians, radical kitties, etc. --and charter a jet to Fort Lauderdale and New York. Two weeks later, the SPLC coffers are over-flowing.
Morris Dees is a despicable man.
Hilarious. These fearmongers are going to teach kids? I don't think so.
Homeschool:
http://www.hslda.org
I have a friend who helps run a homeschool group in Florida. People are fleeing the public school system to find a better way to educate their kids. Told me at the last informational meeting, many of the new families signing up were black.
Change is happening, folks. And the NEA is afraid.
NEA is the real bully.
Memo to Mr. Trump: don’t forget to disband the public unions.
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