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The Trump Effect: The Impact of The 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation's Schools
Southern Poverty Law Center ^ | 11/28/16

Posted on 11/29/2016 2:37:06 PM PST by bobk3

In the first days after the 2016 presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project administered an online survey to K–12 educators from across the country. Over 10,000 teachers, counselors, administrators and others who work in schools have responded. The survey data indicate that the results of the election are having a profoundly negative impact on schools and students. Ninety percent of educators report that school climate has been negatively affected, and most of them believe it will have a long-lasting impact. A full 80 percent describe heightened anxiety and concern on the part of students worried about the impact of the election on themselves and their families.

Also on the upswing: verbal harassment, the use of slurs and derogatory language, and disturbing incidents involving swastikas, Nazi salutes and Confederate flags.

Since Trump was elected, media have been awash in reports of hate incidents around the nation, including at schools. Some detractors have characterized the reports as isolated, exaggerated or even as hoaxes. This survey, which was distributed by several organizations (see About the Survey for a complete list), via email and social media, offers the richest source of information about the immediate impact of the election on our country. The findings show that teachers, principals and district leaders will have an oversized job this year as they work to heal the rifts within school communities.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aft; education; fakenews; handwringers; nea; splc; trumpeducation; trumptransition
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To: bobk3

No effect at all, the schools have been a mess since the us dept of ed was established during the carter years.


21 posted on 11/29/2016 4:02:40 PM PST by mulligan (I)
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".... the Southern Poverty Law Center...."

Code words for "no need to read any further".

22 posted on 11/29/2016 4:37:41 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: bobk3

I can tell you hat every teacher in the school, where my wife teaches, are excited by DJT’s election and to a teacher, all are hopeful that he will get rid of Common Core.


23 posted on 11/29/2016 4:56:41 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: bobk3

The Southern Poverty Law Center is itself a hate group.


24 posted on 11/29/2016 4:59:58 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: bobk3

SPL, are you kidding. This outfit needs an enema.


25 posted on 11/29/2016 6:12:02 PM PST by kublia khan (concession, healing, reaching across the wretched Isle?? Sorry I'm fresh out of all of those things.)
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Yeah - the only students who are worried are the ones getting a free pass so they can have “self-esteem” despite being losers. It’s the teachers that don’t want to have to actually teach a valid curriculum that are most worried.


26 posted on 11/30/2016 2:50:24 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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