How do public school teachers cope? In the past,

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(e.g., Nixon and Clinton impeachments.. or almost impeachments), even if the parents were cheering the "wrong" side, the participants were behaving with public decorum. It was clear you don't yell and spout lies and use 3rd grade delaying tactics according to the norms of our society. Now a teacher risks seeming "political" if they argue for truth and decorum. I'd hate to have that job in a red community.

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1. Needless to say it has been

a challenging 3+ years trying to teach without letting my hatred for trump disrupt my classroom. I teach American History in an urban high school in NC. Our student population is 37% Black kids, 46% Hispanic kids, 12% white kids and mixed race everybody else. 73% of our kids are economically disadvantaged. Half the kids vocally hate trump, other half don't seem to care one way or another. He sure pisses off our Hispanic kids with talk about the wall and cages for immigrants and the dozen or so Muslim kids we have on campus. It's a nightmare teaching anything with threat of deportation hanging over the kids and their families.

Then our lovely state GOP will not pass legislation approving the budget that includes teacher pay raises. No textbooks in the classroom. The ones I scrounge are all 11 years old and of course we do not have classroom sets of computers....We have about 15 computer carts with classroom sets of 30 computers spread across 94 faculty members. Now we do have lots of discussions about right and wrong, how it impacts their friends and families. Urban kids vs......me one, of 3 teacher/farmers and I'm a retired Army officer....

So yeah it is very challenging to teach and not be biased against trump and the GOP around the poor, disadvantaged kids I work with, including the 16year fold from my American History I class that was shot and killed a few weeks ago.