God, I’m disturbed.
A recent survey of school-age children showed that the rise of Donald Trump and his bigotry is terrifying American kids.
A recent survey of 2,000 K-12 school teachers nationwide confirmed our worst hunch — the bigoted rise of Donald Trump is terrifying America’s school children.
Here’s a quick excerpt from the introduction on what they call “ The Trump Effect”:
Reporters here at the Daily News, meanwhile, have worked hard to track specific incidents:
All of these accounts are horrible, but the survey conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows that we’re not dealing with a few isolated incidents here or there, but a national trend.
Those figures are staggering.
Even if they only represented the teachers who completed the survey — and weren’t representative of our entire country — we’re talking about thousands of students who have been harmed by the rise in bigotry brought on by the Trump campaign.
Nothing was as heartbreaking and revealing as the comments teachers made. The report states:
All of this has the appearance to have happened suddenly, but that’s a ruse. Indeed, Trump’s rise to the top of the GOP polls is a new phenomenon, but the bigotry isn’t new at all. It was lurking beneath the surface, deeply embedded into the fiber of this nation. Donald Trump, with his consistently bigoted statements, activated America’s bigotry in ways that many of us simply didn’t expect.