"Trump Effect"
Increases Bullying And Harassment In Schools
By Doug Cunningham
The three million
members of the National Education Association are publicizing the "Trump
Effect" on students, schools and communities - the harmful effect on
students they say is happening due to the inflammatory rhetoric from the GOP
presidential candidate.
NEA Political Director
Carrie Pugh says those effects include an increase in bullying and harassing
behavior that's mirroring Trump's words and actions on the campaign trail.
That includes Montana
students wearing white supremacist Trump t-shirts to school.
[Carrie Pugh]: "Two
students showed up to a pep rally at a school featuring Trump-themed shirts
with the words "White Pride" and "White Power" and
featuring a confederate flag.
Educators all across the country, Arizona,
Colorado, Florida , they're re-telling their stories of anxious students - both
immigrants , citizens - who really fear that their families will be deported if
Trump is elected."
[Carrie Pugh]: "Our
members are out campaigning in battleground states, volunteering their time on
the weekends and the evenings to phone bank other members and to volunteer with
the campaign. And we're doubling down in a number of key battleground states -
Iowa, Nevada, Pennsylvania , New Hampshire and North Carolina.
We couldn't have a
clearer contrast between these two candidates. I mean, Donald Trump continues
to show on a daily basis how temperamentally unfit and unqualified he is to be
president while Secretary Clinton is driving a message of hope and how we are
better when we come together as a nation."