(from NPR) After the 2016 presidential election, teachers across the country reported they were seeing increased name-calling and bullying in their classrooms. Now, student surveys confirm those stories in Virginia. The school climate survey asked 150,000 students across the state questions about bullying and teasing from 2015 and 2017. Seventh- and eighth-graders in areas that favored Trump reported bullying rates in spring 2017 that were 18 percent higher than students living in areas that went for Clinton. They were also 9 percent more likely to report that kids at their schools were teased because of their race or ethnicity. In the 2015 data, there were "no meaningful differences" in those findings across communities, according to the researchers.
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