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These comments came in response to questions asked in a questionnaire asking educators whether they had seen or heard about hate and bias incidents in their schools during the fall 2018 semester. The survey

was conducted by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, from December 5 to

December 17, 2018.

A link to the surv

ey w as sent to educators who subscribe to the T eaching T olerance new sle t

ter and also shared on Teaching Tolerance social media sites. It was open to any educator who wanted to participate.

Several other groups, including the NEA, also shared the survey link with their social media audiences.

Respondents were asked a series of questions, each of which asked if they had seen or heard about a par-

ticular form of hate or bias. Those who answered “yes" were invited to describe the incidents; not all did.

These are the questions that generated the comments: Q. Have you seen or heard about incidents of vandalism or grati involving hate sym- bols or slurs this school year? Yes ... page 2

Q. Have you seen or heard about harassment,

threats, slurs or name-calling directed at immi- grants in your school this school year? page 23

Q. Have you seen or heard about harassment,

threats, slurs or name-calling directed at Muslims in your school this school year? page 37 Q. Have you seen or heard about harassment, threats, slurs or name-calling based on race in your school this school year? page 42

Q. Have you seen or heard about harass-

ment, threats, slurs or name-calling based on gender or sexual orientation at your school this school year? page 63

Q. Have you seen or heard about anti-Se-

mitic harassment, threats, slurs or name-calling at your school this school year? page 83

Q. Have you seen or heard about the dis-

play of Confederate ags on school property this school year? page 92

Q. Have you seen or heard about harassment,

threats, slurs or name-calling based on poli- tics in your school this school year? page 99

In the course of a week, we received responses from over 2,700 educators working in K-12 schools in the

United States. Their comments have been lightly edited for spelling, except in cases where they contained

personally identiable information, in which case that information ha s been removed. Some comments answer more than one question; in that case they"ve been repeated. SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER // HATE AT SCHOOL 2018 TEACHER COMMENTS

Have you seen or heard about incidents of

vandalism or graffiti involving hate symbols or slurs this school year? Yes ...

Nazi symbol with sidewalk chalk.

Racial slurs against black peo-

ple, Jews and gay people.

Inappropriate words in the bathroom stalls

Our campus is a public park outside of school

hours, and students have reported nd- ing grati of swastikas, genitalia and curse words- usually on the rst day back after a long break. To our knowledge, it is not our students doing this, but other community members.

An outdoor area, beyond the playground,

designed for teaching was destroyed.

There were swastikas drawn on the bath-

room wall on two occasions. [There were] separate incidents where white stu- dents called black students apes and/or monkeys.

We have 3 elementary schools in our district, 1

middle school, and 1 high school. One of our teach- ers at the elementary school has a son at the high school who is bullied and called the “n" word.

I had a 5th grade student draw a swastika on

his hand with the words “white power." Elementary students chanting “build the wall" in class. Students putting paper signs on their desks that say, “build the wall." Students calling other stu- dents “gay." Students calling the teacher a liar when the teacher said that children were indeed being taken from their parents at the border. A sta mem- ber telling another sta member that her child was “dirtying up the reading group." A sta member telling another sta member that she was going to “make like a [n-word] and work in her yard all week- end long." Student drawing a swastika on his math paper and when called on it telling his parents that he didn"t know what it meant and parents taking that defensive line. Students saying “immigrants are dirty and steal our jobs" just upon hearing the word immigrant from our social studies book.

Swastikas, specic mention of girls"

names with derogatory speech.

Students wrote swastikas in the bathrooms.

Swastika drawn on wall outside school.

Students said another student could not play

with their toy because the student, who is black, would make the toy turn brown.

High School incident, bathroom grati threat-

ening the black students with gun violence.

Hate symbols were painted on side of

buildings, including swastika. Students entered a classroom and said “Build a wall" several times. There were many Hispanics in that room. In another classroom, some stu- dents started talking about the immigrants at the border and how we should send them back saying “Mexicans are drug dealers."

I heard students calling other stu-

dents white trash and chopstick eyes.

The word gay and Nazi were used

on separate occasions.

Students destroyed a Muslim women

poster in my colleague"s classroom. SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER // HATE AT SCHOOL 2018 TEACHER COMMENTS HAVE YOU SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT INCIDENTS OF VANDALISM OR GRAFFITI INVOLVING

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At the middle school there were rocks found

that had “build the wall" written on them as well as the website of a white nationalist group. KKK was recently written on a bathroom stall wall.

Some students wrote in permanent marker

racial slurs on the bathroom walls.

Swastikas, penises, and racial slurs were spray-

painted to outside walls and windows.

We have students who write body-sham-

ing or negative comments, ‘slut," ‘whore," in the girl"s bathrooms. Many of the boys tend to make comments regarding body parts to the girls in class, or will tease the girls about who they like, their parents, etc.

The [n-word] written on a school wall.

Comments made about Jews and

African American people.

Not very nice words

High school bathrooms, N-word, other racial slurs

Swastika was drawn in the ground by the front

entrance to the middle schools. Some fth grad- ers called an Asian boy “Kim Jung Il" during recess. Some of them taunted the boy with this expression while others watched and laughed. This repeated the following day.

The [n-word] was spray painted on

sidewalks near the school.

Students drawing swastikas on each other"s name

tags and writing N words on each other"s papers

I heard that the N word was painted at a nearby

park. A black father was called ‘you people" for parking in a way that another parent didn"t like. That same family recently moved to [a local] area where a neighbor began to y the confederate ag.

Students using hurtful and racist lan-

guage towards each other.

There were swastikas painted on the wall.

People drawing swastikas on per-

sonal and school property.

Drawings on fence, hate letters.

There was an incident of “gay" being

tagged on the playground

Fights between students using

racial slurs to one another. [The] KKK had disseminated yers rallying hate in our community, up and down the residential streets. Children out playing (most of whom are multicultural students) found these yers and reported them. Spurred a lot of fear in our school.

N-word in bathroom stalls, students call-

ing each other the N-word.

Racial slurs on bathroom stalls.

Students using the “N" word.

Hate notes passed around.

Swastikas penned inside desk

in middle school room.

Calling students gay and using homophobic slurs.

Students being told that they will have to ‘go back home"; grati describing girls as ‘ho"s."

Writing that a student was a bitch

on playground equipment.

There have been incidents where swastika was

scratched into the paint on classroom doors.

We are nding notes on several campuses say-

ing “All brown people should go home."

Symbols found in student bathrooms.

Remarks by parents and students.

Profane language on building, stairs and sidewalk.

Swastikas and racial slurs have been written on

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notes and dispersed student to student. An inci- dent of desk vandalism of the same nature.

In boys" bathroom there were some racist messages

1. Hate/kill/maim lists found; 2. Inappropriate

slurs such as: [n-word]; 3. Telling Mexican stu- dents that a wall should be built to keep them out.

Swastikas were drawn on a wall in a stairwell.

Although we are a multi-racial ethnic school,

many times students feel it is okay to call people [n-words], gay, fags, crackheads, bitches and more. Black students call other black students “white" if the other students speak in “job interview/for- mal" language, do well in school and/or don"t listen to rap music. Those same black students take pride in calling themselves “ghetto." These are the same students who will pick on Hispanic stu- dents by telling them ICE is coming to get them.

Additionally, those students will call white stu-

dents “gay/queer/homo" because they are white.

The boys" restroom has grati on the wall

that names two 5th grade males who “date" each other. Another boy is teased and bul- lied by other males because he wears fake ngernails and prefers being around girls.

Several swastikas were spray painted along the

road where our school is located, as well as on the school marquee. This was done a few days after the shooting at the [Tree of Life] Synagogue.

Students calling other students

names like faggot, [n-word], jit.

Teachers using the message “Make

American Great Again" to convey the

need to “Make school Great Again"

Another teacher reported that a student who was

white was calling another student the N word.

Someone spray painted the word ‘spic."

‘Faggot," ‘gay" used as put downs.

Student outed a trans student at recess.

Students were bullied and harassed because of

known sexual orientation or perceived sexual ori- entation; students of current African immigrants were harassed because of the darkness of their skin.

Words saying “Mexicans need to

leave" in the restroom. Calling others ‘gay" or ‘lesbian "or ‘retarded."

Students regularly write on walls,

desks, and/or stalls words of hate. Written on walls in bathrooms: Black ass; [n-word].

Sexual drawings in bathrooms.

Students drawing swastikas on fold-

ers, writing the N word on folders.

I have seen Nazi symbolism drawn on paper.

Kids are disrespectful to each other in a rac-

ist way. They make fun of each other"s color of their skin. These occurrences are not fre- quent, but enough to take notice.

Students using the N word to describe each

other. Screaming it loudly in the hallways.

We are a predominantly African American

school in a predominantly African American neighborhood. There was a swastika painted on the side of our building one weekend

Kids using the [n-word] or ‘wetback."

Grati in bathroom using racial slurs and profanity

Swastikas gratied in the restroom; harass-

ment of Mexican students by peers.

Swastika, cuss words directed at indi-

vidual students, writing on non-school property (a visiting car). Death threats for entire school on bathroom wall.

Graduating students drew swastikas in the

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yearbooks of classmates who are Jewish.

Swastikas on desks and lockers.

Swastika grati.

A few white, male students have been heard spout-

ing the “n-word" on the bus and in the bathrooms. At least two instances occurred in the presence of students of color. In all cases these were reported by fellow students and/or witnessed by a school employee. It is unknown what the penalties, if any, were given to these particular students.

A student had drawn swastikas on his paper, then

told the teacher he didn"t know what they meant.

Swastikas have been drawn in the bathroom

stalls and the n-word has been written.

Swastikas were drawn.

Swastika on piece of paper, use of the “N" word. Student use of the “n" word, students drawing swas- tikas on school work, students calling each other or classwork “gay," name-calling based on ethnicity.

Swastika drawn on student"s own note-

book (2 separate students did this)

A student wrote a racial com-

ment on the bathroom wall.

Swastikas found in our middle school

and high school bathrooms.

Mainly comments and grati about

immigrants and homosexuals.

N word, swastikas, written on desks

and walls, also on binders.

I have heard African-American students

say that they have heard white students use the “N" word and it upsets them. I hear homophobic remarks nearly daily.

Swastikas drawn in the bathroom, students

giving Hitler salute, N word on a poster.

Swastikas drawn on bathroom walls.

Anti-Semitic hate speech in the boys"

restroom. Something about ovens, reported to me by the custodian.

Drawings of swastikas, derogatory words written

and voiced to peers of dierent religions and races.

I have heard of various incidences of stu-

dents using racial slurs towards students of color, specically the N word.

My son is in the high school, and he has

told me about incidents where some stu- dents have used the Confederate Flag as a rallying point for “white pride."

Use of the [n-word] and gay

Students using racial slurs

Swastikas drawn in bathroom, aggressive

writing on a GSA bulletin board, swastikas drawn on homework assignments.

Swastikas were drawn on toilet paper dispenser.

A boy drew swastikas on the window on the bus.

A swastika was drawn/painted in a bath-

room. The GSA"s corkboard was defaced.

Swastikas have been drawn on walls and student

notebooks. Confederate ag clothing has been worn.

Many students wear Confederate ags

on shirts, hats and belt buckles.

Swastikas drawn in the bathroom stalls.

There were swastikas in the boys" bathroom.

A student was drawing swastikas on his

binder, his desk, assignments, etc.

Curse words, racial slurs, Nazi symbols

Racist language continues to be

a pervasive problem. SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER // HATE AT SCHOOL 2018 TEACHER COMMENTS HAVE YOU SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT INCIDENTS OF VANDALISM OR GRAFFITI INVOLVING

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A student in my class submitted a worksheet

that had a small swastika written in a corner.

A student placed swastikas in bathrooms

and on another student"s clothing.

Nazi signs.

Words (racial slurs) and draw-

ings on notebooks; comments made to females about their style of dress. Slurs such as fag or [n-word]. I"ve heard of some students using the “n" word and I"ve heard of a few swastika symbols being used.

There have been Nazi swastikas found written in

the boy"s bathroom and on the legs of classroom desks. Also, a bulletin board put up by our school"s gay/straight alliance had slurs scribbled all over it.

I know of two incidences of student(s) draw-

ing a swastika on a piece of student work and in a bathroom. I know there was a slur writ- ten on a Gay-Straight Alliance bulletin board.

A teacher reported a student in the hall-

way repeatedly calling his ends faggots.

A student took a photo of a peer and put swasti-

kas and the word Nazi all over it, as a joke. Both boys and their peers thought it was funny. [N-word]

In our upper school, there was grati tar-

geting Chinese international students.

Swastika in boy"s bathroom

“Fuck fags" was written on bathroom wall

Using the “n-word" with students

Student was drawing swastikas on paper. Another

incident was swastikas drawn in boy"s bathroom. a third incident was a swastika drawn on a spe- cial needs student"s locker. A fourth incident was one boy yelling at another boy calling him a “dirty

Jew." A fth incident was a student saying the

KKK was right and the world needs more nooses.

Students were chanting songs that con-

tained the N word while riding the bus.

Student drew a swastika in his notebook.

The “N" word has been etched into the paint

on the wall in the boy"s bathroom on two occa- sions this school year. Also last year.

Mostly notes that are being passed in class.

Most kids will stick up for kids who are

being picked on, so the kids with the rac- ist views now try to keep it quiet.

Drawing of swastikas, words such as “fag"

and “gay," some student doing a “Heil Hitler" sign, and “I can"t wait until another 911."

There have been a few incidences of racial and

homophobic name calling. Students tell me it"s more frequent than we know as adults.

Racist terms written in bathroom.

Swastikas and penises drawn on side-

walks and in yearbooks.

Labeling of an individual due to his ethnicity.

Student drew swastikas on an assignment. It

was a younger middle schooler who may or may not have understood the full implication of it. Children vandalize the bathrooms with pictures of private areas & KKK symbols in the locker room.

Nazi symbols drawn on paper and restroom

walls, image of lynching drawn on paper, desire for “the wall to be built" and verbaliz- ing desire for some to “go back to Mexico."

Racial slurs written on bathroom walls (n-word).

Some boys making fun of another calling him gay

A student wrote “fuck [n-word]" on my wall.

There was a swastika drawn on a desk.

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On an iPad the words KKK, the n-word,

and a comment about porn.

The “N" word was printed on the

wall in a boys" restroom.

There was a swastika symbol writ-

ten on a bus window. Students have spoken racist language to students of color, students are wearing confederate ag symbols and made comments about celebrating confeder- ate ags. In a textbook a student wrote that he/she would lynch the husband of a white teacher who has a black husband. Racial slurs are heard on the bus and the bus drivers do little to nothing about it.

Kids drawing swastikas on their notebooks. Some

kids written up or suspended for using the n word.

Drawings in bathrooms have shown up.

Swastikas spray painted on the out-

side of the school building.

Nazi symbols drawn on paper and

tossed at Jewish students. During an 8th grade Twitter Book Chat another stu- dent came on with an obscure avatar and shared anti-Semitic, racist and homophobia tweets and images throughout the chat. This was reported to Twitter who suspended the account, but this did not stop the student from making a new account and stealing a teacher"s identity to continue spreading hate speech and threatened a Jewish teacher and gay student. Girls were called whores on the twitter feed and twitter handle was an anti-Semitic name.

There were swastikas spray painted

on the outside school wall.

In girl"s bathroom stalls, words were writ-

ten on the doors: slut, gay, fag.

A student in my classroom was repeating a slang

term deriving from a racially oensive term. The student had a hard time reecting on his actions as oensive and racially derogatory. The student was suspended and received some intervention on the implications of using racially derogatory slurs.

Swastika in the bathroom on the stalls. It was

left up for months even though it was reported.

There are oensive words directed towards

all dierent types of students.

Mostly bathroom postings and writings on the

outside areas of schools depicting gang grati.

Swastikas were gratied on to

our high school last year

Nazi signs etched into desks/restrooms

Writing in the bathroom stall.

So-and-so is a bitch. And the like.

Racial and religious slurs

Grati written in bathroom,

tables. Mostly gang related

There were swastikas drawn on desks

The word fag, swastikas

There have been words of hate directed toward

a particular ethnic group or orientation on bathroom walls and written on notebooks.

Swastikas and other white supremacist language

tagged in bathrooms and other walls in school.

Homophobic grati in bathroom stalls.

Anti-LGBT grati in restrooms

There was a “joke" written on a bath-

room wall. It was a joke about the Holocaust and Jews being burned in ovens.

A student recently reported that a small

(about ngertip size) swastika was drawn on the playground slide.

The swastika has been used as Chromebook

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Cuss words, racists terms, anti-Semitic sym-

bols, gang related bandanas and symbols.

There have been many verbal incidents of racial

slurs for example calling Middle Eastern stu- dents terrorists, African American students the N word, Asian students dot heads, etc.

Swastika drawings

We have had a few students draw swastikas.

Swastikas are sometimes carved in desks.

Occasionally a student will use a racial slur.

Swastikas drawn on outer walls.

Bathroom grati claimed that a student was

going to bring arms to school and kill everyone.

There is much going on. We had a girl commit

suicide last year due to the gay harassment.

There was vandalism on a teacher"s le

cabinet, and in the bathroom. Swastika"s drawn on the wall in the boy"s bathroom.

The N word used by students often.

Swastikas, phrases involving the [n-word],

such as: lthy [n-word], [n-word] whores,

I"ll see those [n-word]s on their knees.

Racial slurs

Words such as faggot and retard multiple times

a week. I have seen students draw swastikas and ridicule the Holocaust many times without get- ting punished. And I"ve heard the [n-word] (by non-African Americans) used at least three times in my past two and half years teaching here.

Swastika signs. Hate speech to in hall-

ways (gay, retarded etc.)

A student who dresses dierently was harassed

verbally and taunted as being “gay".

African American science teacher found ruler w/N

word and white supremacy language in room Grati in restrooms against gay/lesbian individuals

Students using homophobic lan-

guage to put each other down.

Writing on bathroom stalls about girls being

sluts, whores. Kids calling others ‘tranny asses" towards our trans* students/gender uid/queer.

Hate speech was written on the boys" bath-

room wall. I can"t remember if there was a swastika involved or not.

Swastika on a locker

The use of the N-Word and also Pepe the Frog.

Written statements regarding stu-

dents" sexual identity.

Multiple instances of hate language, stu-

dent to student. Most language revolved around sexual orientation, size, disability.

A student drew swastikas on his note-

book and other personal items

Nazi swastika symbol drawn on a few notebooks.

Anti-LGBTQIA language, anti-Mus-

lim speech, anti-Semitic acts, N-word use by non-people of color

I"ve heard students use derogatory language to

describe African Americans. Their excuse was that they use the same language among each other. This became a teaching moment.

Swastikas and N* words on bathroom

stalls. Drawing of lynching of student on paper and handed to a student of color.

Lots of reference to gay or lesbian. References

of Hitler and use of the Nazi symbol.

Students use homophobic words

I know of at least one incident involving the

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n word, and a few instances of students being aggressive over sexuality and using the f word

Students drawing Nazi swasti-

kas on their binders (2 incidents)

Book found with derogatory comments

regarding race and religion; investigation found 23 students involved.

Someone tagged swastikas on some

papers and on some walls.

Students ashing gang signs which are divided

along racial lines...Negative language against

Black students and White students.

Swastikas written in bathrooms and on desks,

students drawing pictures about Stalin, one stu- dent removed from school as being diagnosed with having “extreme terrorist tendencies" after drawing a swastika on a desk and nd- ing a disturbing diary titled “Heil Hitler."

I have seen n**** and f***** and g** on walls

and desks. There was also a series of incidents revolving around students drawing swasti- kas on things after studying the holocaust.

Slurs about gangs, girls, Jewish people and peo-

ple of color have been found written in books and in the bathroom. Students also wear uni- forms that are neutral (i.e. don"t have any symbols and exclude blue and red) and some students intentionally represent colors in small ways, such as socks or backpacks or hair ties. Sometimes, racial slurs or inappropri- ate language is used during recess or lunch.

Well I run the Acceptance Club which is an

LGBT and ally club. Kids tell me they hear slurs

all the time. There is no education about gen- der non-conforming or sexuality dierences other than what happens during puberty for boys and girls. But students report that bullying hap- pens—I started the club for this reason to make sure LGBTQIA+ and ally students have a safe place to talk and advocate for arming practices.

Black and Spanish students hate each other and

bring weapons to school to ght. Spanish stu- dents from dierent countries hate each other and ght. African students hate African Americans.

Antisemitic drawings on two Jewish

teachers" classroom desks.

The n word, penises, fuck all N-words.

I am the faculty sponsor for our school GSA. My

classroom door, on which a GSA poster was hang- ing, was set on re. There"s still a burn mark and a small hole on the outside of the door.

Because we have such a large immigrant and

refugee population planted in the middle of a blue-collar, white, little to no higher education, low income area of [the Midwest], the racial and hate crimes have increased. Issues of vandalizing immi- grant or refugee homes, property, businesses to bullying and violence against families, verbal and physical violence against our students at school...

Two students painted swastikas on their paint-

ings in art class. When questioned about the symbol they laughed and said it meant Nazis.

I have seen a number of scribbles on bath-

room stalls calling someone “gay or homo" in a derogatory manner. I hear such words voiced regularly as in “He is so gay," wherein there is a negative connotation to being gay.

Most of the time it is toward black stu-

dents. Since the school is 95% Latino they stand out and are targeted

Students drawing swastikas on materi-

als and making denigrating comments about Jews and other groups

Immigrants who have been in the country for a

while and who now speak English call new arriv- als Hicks. African students are told they smell and should go back to Africa. Guatemalans are treated badly by Dominican students. Hispanic PE teachers humiliate African students for body odor and force them to leave the gym with deodorant. Children are called animals by adults. The lunch lady accuses students of eating two breakfasts and robbing the SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER // HATE AT SCHOOL 2018 TEACHER COMMENTS HAVE YOU SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT INCIDENTS OF VANDALISM OR GRAFFITI INVOLVING

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federal government. Administration says Nothing.

Students draw swastikas on books, desks.

Students writing a message about

[n-word]s on a desk.

Students were drawing swastikas on their mate-

rials and other places throughout the school.

Swastika.

Anti-gay grati- use of word “faggot" scratched or written on lockers or bathroom

Bullying and making fun of students because

of their ethnicity - very discouraging. Swastikas. Nazi slogans yelled in doorways. Kids mocking teachers/students with accents. Ethnic slurs by students towards adults and other students Students repeatedly call each other horrible racial slurs, which results in major ghts and horric bullying. Bullying is constant; administration has cussed out students. The asst. principal told a stu- dent that if he kept acting up, he would end up in juvie and then stated to him (he"s 10), “With that cute little face, you will be bent over and some- one"s bitch in a minute. They will eat you alive."

Teachers bully teachers in front of students. A

teacher threatened me with violence three times because she did not like the sound of my voice. I ended up have to go to the police because when I reported it administration told me, “grow a big- ger dick," I am straight female. I could go on and on. This is the worst I have seen, but the 5 dis- tricts I have worked in follow similar patterns.

Two students painted swastikas on their paint-

ings in art class. When questioned about the symbol they laughed and said it meant Nazis. Students drew sexual images and wrote racial slurs.

Students using the [n-word] and some-

times writing it or saying the word “chink."

The most common and pervasive is interracial

hate, depending on last name and whether they relate to being Hispanic or Spanish or Mexican. Fag and Dyke written on stalls and bulletin boards.

Writing on desks and in bathroom stalls

using profanity and/or “n" word.

Symbols of hate toward Jewish, words of hate

against girls, black people and gays on note- books, bathroom stalls, and lockers.

Swastikas on students" binders.

Swastikas, racially motivated cursing in bathrooms.

Swastikas have been carved into the bath-

room. The word KILL was written on the

Gay/Straight Alliance bulletin board.

Mostly in rest rooms there are some hate messages.

Swastika in bathroom.

Multiple incidents of writing ‘gay" or ‘fag" on tar- geted students" work and/or belongings.

Racial slurs

The n-word was written on a wall in a stu-

dent bathroom more than once last year and this school year. Anti-Semitic slurs also writ- ten on this bathroom wall last year (Seig

Heil accompanied with swastikas)

Students repeatedly have shown me pho-

tos they have taken on their phones of swastikas drawn in boys" bathrooms and of anti-queer slurs in the bathrooms as well.

The n-word was written on two sepa-

rate occasions in dierent bathrooms. The

Black captain of a sports team was subjected

to ape noises by his white teammates.

I have seen swastikas and heard multi-

ple racial slurs and anti-gay slurs.

Swastikas on the bathroom wall were drawn.

There was a large swastika found on

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a desk at the middle school.

Swastikas, use of slurs against Jewish students

and African American students. Openly wav- ing Confederate ags and antagonizing African

American students from other schools who com-

pete in sports against us. Every African American teacher who has ever worked here has been “run o" from lack of administrative support when students have openly used racial slurs. At this time, we only have one African American dif- ferently-abled teacher who is being given a dicult position by not giving him full time sta- tus and having him teach the most aggressive students who take advantage of his [disability.]

Slurs on bathroom mirrors.

Swastika grati in bathroom.

Writing on the bathroom door per-

taining to homophobic slurs.

Students describe seeing swastikas carved

on school property. Our forum post-it wall had “Destroy all libtards" written on it.

Spray paint including hate speech.

A black administrator"s car was keyed at a ball

game. The n-word was sketched into the paint

A few swastikas written in bathroom.

Students use racial slurs in their social media posts Have heard students use of the N word in the halls. A homophobic slur was written in a bathroom.

We routinely nd swastikas as grati. The

most recent was on a bathroom wall.

Nazi symbols being drawn on note-

books, student not disciplined.

Swastika. Hate language written.

Anti-Semitic grati, misogy-

nist images, homophobic slurs.

Posters were placed in and near gender-neutral

bathrooms stating that there are only two genders.

Small swastika drawn on a table in cafeteria

Swastikas in a Jewish teacher"s class-

room; Black students called the n-word.

Swastikas carved in desks

Swastikas draw on student work and furniture.

Printed and handwritten xenophobic and White

Nationalism propaganda signage. One last

school year [was] a printed cartoon of an Uncle

Sam character with a magnifying glass look-

ing at the US Mexico border with a caption saying, “Examine what"s coming in our bor- der." Note the othering and degrading use of “what"s" instead of “who." There were a half- dozen printed and put up on the entrances into the school. The example this year was a simple block lettering printed sign that read “It"s okay to be White." One of my race and equity team col- leagues found a half dozen of these signs taped up around her department"s wing of the building.

Homophobic threats at several GSA mem-

bers, n-word at a few black students, and a swastika scratched on a desk

On the school computer was found a site

named Kool Kool-Aid Clan and there were pictures of monkeys and watermelons and chicken and racial slurs and hate speak. “Build the wall" was spray painted on the entrance of the school where everyone could see it along with swastikas and many other hate messages

Swastikas, death messages for

non-Christians and non-whites I"ve taken up KKK “applications" from students; the principal has called students out for such.

Trump stickers were placed in the school,

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Swastikas in bathroom stalls

Verbal comments - “you"re smart for a

black guy"; “of course you"re good at math, you"re Asian" (& others similar)

We have a new gender-neutral bathroom. There has

been homophobic language written on the stalls.

A student reported to me that during lunch,

someone air bombed a Nazi symbol. It made him uncomfortable (and he is white).

A few students were writing swastika symbols on

notebooks; others were ying the Confederate Flag

Swastikas were drawn in boys" bathrooms in

my high school. At a dierent local high school, the [n-word] was written on a student desk.

Some of our Muslim students report being

called derogatory names by other students.

N word used in student texts. Swastikas on bath-

room stalls. LGBTQ bulletin board vandalized.

I advise our GSA and all of our posters

announcing meetings were torn down. Most of it has been slurs about ‘building a wall."

There have been some instances of homopho-

bic micro aggressions like ‘That"s so gay."

No symbols...only comments by students while in

the halls when they think you are out of earshot.

Hidden vandalism throughout school, mainly in

bathrooms. Found some time after its creation. [n-word] written on bathroom stalls.

Maintenance was cleaning swastikas o of

various surfaces at least once a day in the months since Trump"s inauguration.

There have been numerous sexist and rac-

ist grati on bathroom walls, to an extent

I have never seen before in 28 years.

Swastikas drawn in dust on car windows, chalk

on the sidewalk, on walls; students saying they are going to ‘shoot up everyone in Israel."

Grati in bathrooms saying African American

(I believe [n-word] was the word used) students should go back to Africa. Constant verbal abuse of minority students (race, gender and sexuality, cul- tural, religious, etc.). Social media where students had the confederate ag painted on their body and had statements about the white race being supreme.

Racial slurs, swastikas, and anti-LBGTQ

grati, social media posts, and such [n-word] was written in a bathroom stall. [n-word] was used by a student in a social media post.

Racial slurs, pro-Nazi behavior, written on

bathroom walls both male and female. Students built a “wall" around a Latino student.

Swastikas, anti-Semitic language,

racial slurs including n-word.

Swastikas and the N word

One student was called the “n" word in the caf- eteria by a Hispanic and white student. There was another incident of a group text that con- tained racial slurs. Other multiple uses of the

“n" word towards students, all were girls.

Swastikas written on posters and lockers

Students have been seen drawing Nazi sym-

bols and writing “whites only" on desks.

The Nazi symbol in the bathroom.

Swastikas drawn on desks and lockers, nding

pieces of paper taped in visible places with the words “The Germans did nothing wrong in WWII," one student called a black student the N-word, one student rearranged the letters on class- room mobile lab computers to say, “Fuck Jews."

Students harassed African American students in

the hallways and in unstructured places and ask questions like, “Where are you from? Africa?"

OR students have made overt suggestions that

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an African American student was a "mon- key." OR a student put a swastika on another student who did NOT want it. A student put swastikas on their notebooks “doodling."

Swastikas on desks and in bathrooms; the com-

ment “Kill all Hispanics" written on desks; a thank you card to a gay teacher that said,

“Thank you for being attracted to guys."

Swastika symbols drawn inside of

drawers in my classroom.

A swastika was written on a school locker.

In our transgender restroom there have been

derogatory homophobic messages; We have had several students create a social media private group where racist, sexist, and homopho- bic videos and messages were posted.

Muslim student slurs in the hallways. Repeated,

and student was fearful about letting school sta know. After multiple discussions, the student named the other student.

Anti-Semitic language was written on the

wall/mirror in our locker room this year.

Students using the n-word. Reports of homopho-

bic bullying, especially on athletic teams.

Transphobia openly expressed when graduation

gowns were moved from being gendered colors (one color for girls, another for boys) to one color.

Two students drew swastikas on post-

ers and walls throughout the school.

Swastika N word

Bathroom grati with swastikas and the “n" word

There were some swastikas on the boy"s bath-

room walls. Could not catch who it was - but we have a small population of boys who y the confederate ag on their pick-up trucks

I heard about KKK grati in the boys" restroom.

I have seen language and symbols used on twit-

ter accounts I have seen teacher and student faces edited to make someone a “gay" Playboy bunny.

Swastikas spray painted onto concrete on an ele-

mentary playground. Violent racist messages communicated to students via the renaming of wi hotspots during all school assembly.

Posting photo of student athletes/lead-

ers with costumes depicting racist caricatures and Confederate ags.

“Faggot" written on desk

Swastikas have been written inside bath-

room stalls and on desk tops. Swastikas drawn on teacher desks, students" desks, and bathroom walls. The N word on bathroom stalls.

A colleague has written up at least two stu-

dents for using the “n-word."

WiFi was used to broadcast hate-speech, includ-

ing use of the n word, swastikas, homophobic slurs.

Hate symbols on yers through the school. Was

caught by administration and removed immediately Slurs and language most often written on bathroom walls. Racism symbols etched into bathroom walls.

Confederate ags, racial grati

Nazi, [n-word], White power, build the wall,

KKK and swastikas written on desks, dry

erase boards, yers, and on a large branch.

Swastikas drawn on bathroom walls

After Obama was elected, there was a period of

racial slurs against the African American com- munity. After Trump was elected, there was a backlash against immigrant students.

Students have drawn swastikas and anti-Se-

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of this was a swastika made of penises.

Nazi symbol on a bathroom partition

Signs and messages on bathroom walls.

Bomb threats. Fights in the hallway.

Mostly grati, the “N" word, swastikas painted on walls and lockers. Teens were involved in grave site vandalism as well painting swasti- kas and the “N" and turning over head stones

A student wrote the [n-word] on a bulle-

tin board near the gym locker rooms.

Swastikas, n-word comments about immigration

Students wanted to create a GSA (Gay Straight

Alliance) club - but met with resistance from

administration. The HS principal rarely responded to emails and questions, was vague in what needed to be done to meet the criteria to start a new club, and only scheduled a meeting with the student leaders after one of them contacted the ACLU. ... He required the students to create a “curric- ulum" (although we have other clubs that would question that need - Anime/Manga, for example) and then after providing the materials and les- son plans for the rst three club meetings, waited a week to respond to grant nal approval. He told a teacher interested in sponsoring it last year that “we don"t have a need for that type of club here." In 4 days" time, we compiled a roster of over 60 interested students for our rst meet- ing held last week. We promoted our club using posters in the hallway (that he approved) - but as soon as they went up, there were 2 social media posts maligning our club and tearing up our post- ers - and to our knowledge, the student [who tore up the posters] was not addressed by administra- tion, despite our report of the situation. We"ve also had some of our posters torn down - and witnessed - yet again, to our knowledge, there were no consequences for that vandalism.

Confederate ag, Nazi symbol

Antisemitic and homophobic slurs.

Leviticus quotes written on white

board of openly gay teacher.

Swastikas, foul language toward race, gen-

der, sexuality. Physical and mental harassment toward students who have cognitive devel- opment setbacks. Drawings left around the school or passed between peers with draw- ings of sexual acts and racial slurs ([n-word]).

Racial slur spray painted on the football eld.

A sta member"s desk had the

[n-word] scratched on it.

School property was defaced to spell out

a slur targeting African-Americans

Students coming to school wear-

ing confederate ag symbols.

Swastikas drawn on desks and bathroom walls

KCW written on walls [Keep C(town) White].

Neo-Nazi meeting pamphlets, swastikas

painted on campus, racial slurs (against peo- ple of color, Hispanic, and black specically)

White students chanting “Trump, Trump" in

the faces of students of color. Students of color being told by white students to “go back to where you came from" (even though the students had gone to school together since kindergarten).

Written in bathroom

Nazi swastikas and the n-word scrawled in bath-

room stalls, classroom tables, hallway posters, etc. Anti-Semitic statements (not disclosed to us) and the n-word were written on the walls of bathrooms.

Posters for our LGBT club were ripped down/scrib-

bled on (again, no more details were disclosed).

Swastikas drawn on desks.

Derogatory words scribbled on post-

ers in the hallway.

Students playing soccer on patio at lunch.

Other student got hit with the ball. Scue

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about "stupid Mexicans" not understand- ing English when told to “watch out".

Swastikas were spray painted on the build-

ing and one of the school"s vans.

I stand at my door in between classes every day.

I have heard several students, mostly of white

and/or Hispanic descent use all forms of the n-word as they walk by. When I confront students about their language, they respond with more vulgar language and when I have referred stu- dents in my classroom for using any form of the n-word, or homophobic slur, nothing happens, and administration never follows up with me

Swastikas, MAGA spray painted, use of N word

A student drew a swastika on the dry-erase

board and the teacher reported it to administra- tion. No action was taken by administration.

A picture of my son was taken and posted

online, with the words “fucking [n-word]"

There are tagging"s of gang mon-

ikers and vulgar language

I have students who draw swasti-

kas on their hands and folders. N word written in restroom stalls. N word written in dust on library window. N word used. Anti-Semitic language used. Islamophobic language used.

We have a student group at our school that ghts

racism, and while this was not hate speech, an anonymous yer was posted during the day that we host our school"s Open House. The yer said our school has “zero tolerance for freedom of speech, white people and way more." It also said that our racial summit which have been created to provide safe spaces for students of various iden- tities, our Latinx, Black, LGBTQ+, and IAmAsian

Summits “furthered racial segregation." While

this was an isolated incident, I think this high- lights the ways in which there seems to be fatigue around how our community is addressing white supremacy, thus this problematic yer. There are other incidents, but our school does a good job of ensuring that they don"t make it into the news.

Spray painting of names

During a game our students were harassed by the

other team. The directed racial slurs and made gender comments about some of our students. Nazi symbols in the bathroom, “n" word used on twitter to describe African American students

Next to a poster of a meeting of the Gay stu-

dent alliance was a Bible verse. It led to the principal changing the rules for put- ting up announcements around the school.

Last year the day before school started

seniors put grati on the high school build- ing walls including anti-Semitic slurs.

Two students pulled the plug on a speaker

playing Latin music during Hispanic heri- tage month and told the students dancing to it to “go back to your country"

Swastikas were spray painted on the build-

ing and one of the school"s vans.

Swastika on restroom stall

The Muslim/middle eastern students are the vic-

tims of islamophobia (e.g. “my mom says you guys are terrorists") and the middle eastern stu- dents are calling the black students the [n-word with an a] and in some cases spitting on them.

There was homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hil-

lary Clinton grati posted on the school wall

The “N" word was written on a protective pad

in the gym along with some other vulgarities.

I hear the n word a lot from students of all col-

ors. I will see students gather in cliques when they are on site and occasionally harass peo- ple at the entrance to the site with racial slurs.

A swastika was carved into a bus seat.

Student drew a swastika on a bus. Other

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students drew swastikas on assignments.

Several students have been caught draw-

ing swastikas on assignments, on a school bus, and on memes they have made. Grati directed at dierent gangs, races, religions

Message on desk about Jews

Students have written racist messages on lock-

ers, in restrooms, and all school walls.

Swastikas appear regularly in school, on class-

room desks, in bathrooms, on walls. Black students report getting called the “N-word" in the hallways on a regular basis.

White boy brought rebel ag to school and told

one of our football players who happens to be black that he was white and proud to y the

Confederate ag because it stood for his values

and beliefs then went on to provoke the ath- lete until there was a physical altercation

Nazi sign

We have a HUGE increase in freshmen using

the N word, despite direct instruction about the etymology of the word, classroom debates and les- sons, and oce referrals. The use of the N word (in all contexts) leads to verbal altercations.

Racist language against blacks on bathroom walls.

Swastikas have been found written on bath-

room walls. Confederate ags have been found on vehicles, clothing and social media.

Students drew swastikas in the

bathroom using feces.

Most have involved hate symbols (swas-

tikas) on notebooks of a few students and some slurs toward black people.

Hateful messages written in

Sharpie on bathroom stalls.

Negative drawings (swastika)

Kids will write things on their papers. One stu-

dent drew a Confederate ag and how the

N-word people are inferior. The teacher

is African-American and white.

A student wrote a swastika on a bathroom stall.

Other HS teams have also taunted our ath-

letes by calling the cheerleaders monkeys and making monkey noises at matches.

Two separate incidents — Nazi symbol and

N-word drawn/written in a bathroom stall.

Use of the n-word and other racial slurs by

students. A student yelled “faggot" across the parking lot at another student.

Swastikas being scratched or writ-

ten in public spaces. 2-3 times. In the center of campus is a large rock, and every few weeks, [a student leadership group] paints the rock for a dierent theme (St. Patrick"s Day,

Homecoming, Winter Break, etc.). The Gay-

Straight Alliance painted the rock with rainbow

and acceptance messages on Friday. By Monday, the rainbow had been covered with black paint and spray-painted in white “there"s only two genders"

Student council member sent a Snapchat story

of herself with a swastika pumpkin she carved

There is frequent tagging in the neighbor-

hood due to the presence of three rival gangs.

Swastika in stalls.

During a discussion about the book Night that deals with the Holocaust, students were taking notes on a shared Google Doc. One student, to the laughter and attention of two classmates wrote slurs such as faggot and [n-word with “a"] on the document.

Students in the alternative program wear ban-

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A female student used the n-word on her own FB

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A student repeatedly being deni-

grated with the words ‘you faggot."

Students spray painted swasti-

kas on the garage doors of a number of homes in the school community.

A student I didn"t know called me a faggot when

I asked them for their pass to be in my room

Swastikas and KKK related pictures, one student

made a KKK hood in art class and used KKK on it.

Grati of the n-word was found in a bathroom.

There is anti-Semitic speech drawn on walls

N-word verbalized and written on bathroom wall

Texting “go back to your coun-

try." Constant microaggressions.

Swastika

“That is so gay" used.

Some swastikas were drawn on the boys" bath-

room walls, along with some anti-black slurs.

Student drew a swastika in an elevator

Swastika

Grati of a homophobic nature

in the boys bathroom.

Grati in bathroom threatened a school shooting.

Tagging of fags, dyke, [n-word].

Students complaining of bullying

MAGA Hat, and Students saying the N word.

As an English teacher in a culturally, nan-

cially, racially, and religiously diverse high school classroom I have read multiple narrations saying unspeakably racist, anti-im- migrant/refugee, people-of color sentiments by mostly entitled/privileged/white males. A student posted a Nazi sign in a teacher"s class- room. The teacher is Jewish, although it is not clear if the student knew it or not. People left grati on or near the school restrooms

There have been swastikas drawn

around the schools.

Students calling each other [n-word]

Students other than African American using the

N word towards each other and at AA students.

Grati on a fence one block from school,

KKK spray painted on fence.

Swastikas, Gay slurs

Destroying bathroom, Bathrooms are unusable.

There was a swastika in a bathroom on the toi-

let paper holder; a white student is calling others “snowakes" and saying our school is lled with PC Police and sent an oensive video to the teachers of the class other students are using racial slurs (white to students of color)

A student taped a piece of paper with a swas-

tika on my classroom wall. This was a couple days after the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, and I am Jewish.

There was some writing in the bath-

room expressing hate for various people of ethnic or color background Students of color are reporting the use of the “N" word more often than they have in the past.

Students writing swastikas on papers/desks

Hateful language used between students

Student team names on a digital quiz-

zing platform were entered in as “Build the Wall" and “Kill the Jews."

Swastikas and/or [n-word] engraved on

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conversational use by students of terms like fag, Jew (as an insult), [n-word]

Hate speech & racial slurs

directed at certain groups.

Nazi symbols being drawn by a student

who is fascinated with the Holocaust

Hate speech at our Equity Assembly

It"s mostly inappropriate pic-

tures in the boys" bathroom.

Fag, on a locker

A white teacher that indiscrim-

inately uses the N word.

Mostly Gang related symbols in notebooks

or in bathrooms and denite racial slurs ban- died about carelessly and also derogatory comments about transgender students.

Students using slurs involving African-

American students and GLBTQ students.

I was covering a class for another teacher, and I witnessed a white student draw swastikas on the skin and paper of the Latino student next to him. The Latino student was very angry but tried not to cause trouble. I had to intervene. The white stu- dent was expelled. Our school took action, but I am still seeing it. Our school had to stop students from wearing Confederate ag clothing accesso- ries and ying the ags from their trucks. They have also dressed up as ICE/immigration ocers for Halloween and chased after Latino students in the past couple years. I didn"t really see this in my rst half of years here, but since the inaugu- ration of Trump and governmental acceptance of hate speech, I have seen many horric events and heard many horror stories from other teach- ers and students right here on our campus. Some students also conde in me that they do not know what to do about the hate their parents and fam- ily members show at home, and that is where I feel like I need help—how to be a resource for those stu- dents who want to help educate their families and have proactive discussions instead of arguments.

Mostly Hispanic gang grati with

racial slur come-backs.

There was a large protest that broke out into

a ght between two dierent groups with dif- ferent beliefs on gun regulation. One group was ying the American ag and the confeder- ate ag. They would shout “Build the wall." Mostly just grati, but conversations are overheard in the halls and classrooms where they use slurs.

It is not racial, mostly just hateful

Grati with signs like “white" in all caps.

Anti-immigrant aimed at Mexicans

speak English go home, etc.

Drawings of swastikas, grati of the N-word

Grati, mean notes, Facebook posts.

We mostly have incidents against homo-

sexuality. The school does a good job at erasing grati right away.

We had a shouting match last spring between

students respectfully gathered to honor those killed in school shootings with students who support gun rights. Then they started yelling racial slurs. We"ve also had gang graf- ti drawn in bathrooms, on walls, etc.

On [midterms] election day someone posted

numerous yers blaming immigrants and

Liberals for causing problems in our country

Use of homophobia language like ‘homo,"

‘fag, "etc. used in conversations and writ-

ten on class board w dry erase marker

Homophobic comments about students writ-

ten in the bathrooms. White students yelling the n-word at students of color and causing ghts.

Vandalism in the bathroom. Do not know

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Trump supporters that wrote

make America white again.

Students grati on art tables in classroom.

The grati is derogatory toward gays. I

have also seen on campus outside on class- room walls several swastikas over the years.

Swastikas and anti LGBTQ talk

Hate language and speech.

Talk in locker room has a wide vari-

ety of sexual slurs.

Swastika

Elementary school principal received a let-

ter laden with racial epithets and threats.

Foul language on walls

Students often call each other “gay" when

they think the other person is doing some- thing wrong or inappropriate.

Students do not think twice about openly

making racial slurs and openly discriminat- ing against others. The Hispanic students harass the white and black students. One of the white students came into my room and told me it was weird here, because even the black kids sit with the whites, because the Mexicans will not allow anyone else into their circles.

There have been reports to me, and I

have personally witnessed, anti-Se- mitic and anti-black statements from students directed at other students.

Swastikas drawn on classroom furniture;

Confederate ags own from student vehicles

A student using a racist slur as an online

screen name during a class activity.

Air drops of swastikas

Nazi language and symbols; white pride comments

One student came in with a swas-

tika drawn on his hand.

Within two days two bathrooms were vandalized.

Day one with masking tape “fuck you" and the sec- ond day a teacher"s name was used and called a slut.

Name calling: the ‘n" word, fag

Swastikas, fag (verbal and written), disre-

spect towards female students (whore, slut)

Incident 1 - the words “F*** [n-word]s" writ-

ten on bathroom wall; Incident 2 - the word “coon" written multiple times and placed inside an African American student"s art drawer.

Swastikas on tables

Student language denigrating immi-

grants and welfare recipients

On at least one occasion, a swas-

tika was drawn on a desk

Grati, Nazi symbols in bathrooms

Swastika and Star of David

Swastikas were found drawn on a couple of

places. This was not the rst time this year.

Gang signs related to race and ethnic-

ity were drawn on other people"s property Student called another student “Ching Chong" and pulled their own eyes back to resemble “Asian eyes."

The use of the N word against African American

students has been an issue with our younger grades. The reference of current immigration pol- icies used to hurt students who are immigrants

Confederate ag and banner with racial

slurs at high schoo