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The first school year of the Donald Trump presidency left educators struggling to navigate a climate where misogyny, religious intolerance, name-calling, and racial exclusion have become part of mainstream political speech.

These budding political beliefs among some students carry consequences beyond the schoolyard.

Today’s high schoolers will be eligible to vote in 2020, and today’s fifth graders will be eligible to vote in 2024.



Donald Trump’s campaign and election have added an alarming twist to school bullying, with white students using the president's words and slogans to bully Latino, Middle Eastern, black, Asian, and Jewish classmates. In the first comprehensive review of post-election bullying, BuzzFeed News has confirmed more than 50 incidents, across 26 states, in which a K-12 student invoked Trump’s name or message in an apparent effort to harass a classmate during the past school year.

In the parking lot of a high school in Shakopee, Minnesota, boys in Donald Trump shirts gathered around a black teenage girl and sang a portion of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” replacing the closing line with “and the home of the slaves.” On a playground at an elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, third-graders surrounded a boy and chanted “Trump! Trump! Trump!”

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 Mateo County, 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!”

Do you wonder why a conservative would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate?

He was described by classmates as a quiet outsider ("loner") who was sometimes bullied because of his somewhat conspicuous appearance and clothing style (for example, hunting clothing) and his solitary behavior , ^[7] showed little emotion and had little interest in community activities.

In a sociological sense, mobbing or bullying describes psychological violence, which is defined by the repeated and regular, predominantly psychological harassment , torment and injury ^[1] of an individual by any group of people or by an individual in a superior position. Typical acts of mobbing include humiliation , spreading false factual allegations, assigning meaningless tasks and other abuse of power , threats of violence , social exclusion or continued, inappropriate criticism of a natural person or their actions, ^[2] which amounts to tyranny or inhumane and ruthless treatment.

According to some schoolmates, he was above average intelligent. His social media activities show that he was interested in chess and video games and learned programming. ^[8] In contrast to most of his classmates, he consistently held politically conservative views. ^[9] Others emphasize that he practically never talked about politics. ^[7] He is said to have associated with a small group of fairly conservative friends, some of whom appeared to be Trump supporters. ^[3]

Crooks had no military ties, ^[7] but was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen's Club , which operates a 180-meter shooting range south of Pittsburgh. ^[10] In high school, he tried to join the rifle team, but was rejected as unsuitable. A former classmate said he "shot terribly". ^[11]

At the time of the attack, he was volunteering in the kitchen of a local nursing home .