Kids Use President Trump's Words To Bully Peers: Report

NEW YORK, NY — BuzzFeed News confirmed more than 50 incidents in schools across the country of white students using President Trump's name, words and policies to taunt minority classmates, according to a report published Tuesday. The outlet notes that these incidents pose a particular challenge for teachers, because the kids can ask, "Why can the president say it but I can’t?"

BuzzFeed discovered reports of many more such incidents than just the 50 or so, spanning 26 states, it was able to confirm through interviews, local reports and official school statements. The heartbreaking incidents students include chanting Trump's name, talking about the proposed border wall to taunt Latino students or mimicking insults that Trump used against Hillary Clinton during the campaign. (For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch for daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

The article begins by listing just a few representative incidents:

On a school bus in San Antonio, Texas, a white eighth-grader said to a Filipino classmate, “You are going to be deported.” In a classroom in Brea, California, a white eighth-grader told a black classmate, “Now that Trump won, you're going to have to go back to Africa, where you belong.” In the hallway of a high school in San Carlos, California, a white student told two biracial girls to “go back home to whatever country you're from.” In Louisville, Kentucky, a third-grade boy chased a Latina girl around the classroom shouting “build the wall!” In a stadium parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, after a high school football game, white students chanted at black students from the opposing school: “Donald Trump! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!”

Read the full story at BuzzFeed.

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