on November 15, 2016 in World News
Teachers, Parents Who Scared Kids About Trump Now Try to Console Them
by Joel B. Pollak Teachers in California are struggling to calm children down about the election of Donald Trump. At Bay View Elementary in San Pablo, for instance, the East Bay Times reports that a teacher “held what’s called a ‘restorative circle’ with about 24 of her students. They each took turns holding a yellow ball and expressed a gamut of emotions from happiness and sadness to despair to hopelessness about the future.” The students described in the article are nine years old. It is unclear whether any were allowed to express emotions other than fear and despair. In some cases, rather than… View Article
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