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
This from the group that ostracizes children who do not agree or fall in line with the propaganda being spewed in our schools today.
School choice
Sorry, I couldn’t get beyond the 2nd paragraph before the bile started churning up. Am I living in the Twilight zone and we really ARE going through a moron apocalypse? Because I remember this other reality I use to live in where crooks were arrested and thrown in jail and people would actually support that. NOW it seems, someone who commits multiple felonies time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again is considered Presidential material while her opponent is blasted in the press, and by just about everybody else it seems every day, because he defends himself against people who attack him and knows tax laws. WHAT THE F am I missing here?
The referenced report has allegations against Trump by education people with no links to videos to support the allegations.
The Democrats have pushed our educational standing to number 25 in the world. The most powerful and richest nation produces uneducated students
The National Education Association fascists again are making up false claims about Trump's so-called "inflammatory rhetoric."
The NEA has a poor track record when it comes to educating our children. Of course they have their useful idiots willing to jump in without thinking or using common sense. The NEA is worried about having real competition via support for private schooling, support for parents who want to get their children out of the failing public schools.
The Trump candidacy is "smoking out" all kinds of vermin in both parties, do you not agree?
I’ve never seen the left this desperate and piling on as much on one person as I’ve seen them do with Trump. They’re scared to death of this guy and look at the attacks on his voters. The left has been destroying America for decades and people are finally waking up, and they can’t stand legitimate opposition. As for this Joy Bock, the supposed Republican teacher who’s appalled about Trump. I say good. Another closeted Democrat in Republican clothing exposed. Of course the MSM has no competing stories of Democrats disenchanted with their party. They’ll find out on Nov 8 how disenchanted they are.
NEA is BS.
Yeah, he shouldn’t call Republicans deplorable, Bernie supporters basement dwellers, blacks super predators and gold star moms liars. Oh, wait, uh, never mind.
NEA Commies.....
Did I just make them run to their safe space?
The NEA needs to go the way of the Do-Do Bird.
NEA needs to go. So does tenure and govt schools.
NEA is BS.
I stopped reading at “Keith Ellison”.
More BLM type nonsense I assume.
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Yes the effect of Trump has brought out the bullies, against his supporters. But not because of anything he has said or done, but because of what the Democrats & press have falsely painted Trump as. Stupid people are incapable of thinking rationally on their own. Sadly enough there are far too many stupid people, and some even hold college degrees the are piled high & deep (Phd’s).
They may have already destroyed it. They certainly have destroyed the Minds of millions of children who fixate onto a warped, irrational worldview of socialism—group-think slavery of total irrationality (emotions rule everthing).
NO DIVERSITY of IDEAS can ever occur for their One Mind world religion of totalitarianism and destruction of all individualism (unique identity) so boys are girls and all Natural Instincts (Common Sense) is destroyed so the worldview of Christianity (Reason plus Faith) is ERASED for good.
Animals-—with no Reason/ability to think for selves-—cattle to be herded and culled-—is what the Prussian system of mass indoctrination into “group-(non)-think) was created for.....research Fichte/1810/Free Will/Snow is Black.
It was planned 200 years ago and John Dewey stuck the mandatory Satanic System (moral relativism—Marxism) into America-—creating totally irrational children who will be guaranteed to grow up to never be able to even tell if they are male or female. Dumber than a stump.
We need parents to take back education of their own children and kick the State out. Socrates stated, when you allow the State to “educate”, they will never educate, just make slaves of the masses.
Lies. All lies.
The N.E.A. published and distributed The American Citizens Handook (bought from 4H) from 1941 through 1969. It was full of patriotic American writings, passages of Scripture, American quotes and stories, good solid American stuff. Rumor has it the last 10,000 copies went to a NY landfill in 1969. Done.
For decades now, a pubic school teacher wouldn’t be caught dead with a copy in zer classroom. Doubt any pubic schools have one left. But, a pink triangle on the door? Posters of famous queer Americans? A section on the Quran? Assigning Michael Moore books to read? Field trip to an Al Gore movie? Kicking out Boy Scouts? All okey doke.
I hold pubic school teachers highly responsible for America’s social, moral and intellectual decline.
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