The left manufactures the premise and then uses it to divide.
Via The Guardian:
As students filed into Spanish class at a high school outside Seattle on Tuesday, their teacher, Antonio, stood at the door greeting them.
One girl – “one of my LGBTQ kids”, Antonio called her – seemed unhappy.
He assured her they would talk about it in class. But just two minutes later, with students still arriving, Antonio turned around to find another classmate consoling the girl, who had “exploded in tears”. She missed class and went to the school counsellor.
“She has a transgender boyfriend and they are scared,” said Antonio, who asked for his full name not to be published.
Her fear? Donald Trump.
As schools report the N-word scrawled on lockers, bullies telling Latino students they’ll be deported and anxious students crying in class, teachers have become witnesses and mediators of this abuse, and many are now attempting to turn the election of Trump into a “teachable moment”.
“There’s an increase in bullying, very clearly election related,” said Maureen Costello, the director of Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Law Poverty Center.
It published a report called The Trump Effect in the spring about the impact of the election on classrooms and launched a post-election survey for teachers to support a follow-up report.
More than 8,000 teachers have already responded (major unions began sending it out to their members on Friday) and Costello said so far, 90% reported “a negative impact on school climate since the election”.
“The biggest concern is anxiety of vulnerable students,” said Costello, who said children who are immigrants or from immigrant families (or look as if they may be), Muslim children (or kids who appear possibly Muslim), African Americans, LGBT kids and girls were displaying the most stress.
“We’ve seen the name Trump became a weapon used by the bullies,” said Costello, noting the survey recounted a rise in racial slurs, including use of the n-word.