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children are harassed in American classrooms
Two kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy that President Trump would send him back to Mexico, and teenagers in Maine sneered "Ban Muslims" at a classmate wearing a hijab. In Tennessee, a group of middle-schoolers linked arms, imitating the president's proposed border wall as they refused to let nonwhite students pass. In Ohio, another group of middle-schoolers surrounded a mixed-race sixth-grader and, as she confided to her mother, told the girl: "This is Trump country."
Since Trumps rise to the nations highest office, his inflammatory language often condemned as racist and xenophobic has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the presidents insults and the cruel way he delivers them.
Trumps words, those chanted by his followers at campaign rallies and even his last name have been wielded by students and school staff members to harass children more than 300 times since the start of 2016, a Washington Post review of 28,000 news stories found. At least three-quarters of the attacks were directed at kids who are Hispanic, black or Muslim, according to the analysis. Students have also been victimized because they support the president more than 45 times during the same period.
Although many hateful episodes garnered coverage just after the election, The Post found that Trump-connected persecution of children has never stopped. Even without the huge total from November 2016, an average of nearly two incidents per school week have been publicly reported over the past four years. Still, because so much of the bullying never appears in the news, The Posts figure represents a small fraction of the actual total. It also doesnt include the thousands of slurs, swastikas and racial epithets that arent directly linked to Trump but that the presidents detractors argue his behavior has exacerbated....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/school-bullying-trump-words/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-bullying-1120am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Initech
(100,069 posts)mia
(8,360 posts)Anti-black: 23%
Anti-Semitic: 7%
Anti-Muslim: 8%
Anti-LGBT: 4%
Anti-Trump: 14%
Note: Some incidents targeted multiple groups and,
in other cases, the ethnicity/gender/religion of the
intended target was unclear. Figures may not
precisely add up because of rounding.
Source: Washington Post analysis of media reports
Initech
(100,069 posts)This is quite possibly the scariest thing that he's done since taking office, and he's done a lot of scary things.
mia
(8,360 posts)There's no stopping him.
Initech
(100,069 posts)But I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.
llmart
(15,537 posts)How does any parent or teacher teach their children about respecting the office of President in this day and age? When I was growing up, it didn't matter which political party the President was from. We learned that we should look up to the President. President Obama and his entire family were such a wonderful example of how to behave and be presidential and respect others and our country. Now we have the complete opposite of the Obama family - the entire Trump clan doesn't contain one single adult person that has any admirable qualities. Not one.
mia
(8,360 posts)He offers nothing to respect. Parents and teachers of conscience have a difficult job.
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)My cousin adopted a couple of kids from Central America. The day after the election, classmates were in their faces telling them, "Go back to Mexico." They weren't even born in Mexico, and and came here as infants. It's sickening.