Nobody thinks that kids aren’t hearing the low, hateful rhetoric from Trump, his supporters, and other Republican leaders. It’s been a prominent theme of Hillary Clinton’s advertising and the focus of many articles.
Not content with the seepage of hate, or the trickle of intimidation, one unidentified coward went directly to his targets.
The Press Democrat (J.D. Morris): Donald Trump and Anti-Immigrant Graffiti Hit Spanish-Language School
Staff at a Spanish-language immersion school in Windsor found their campus marred early Monday by graffiti bearing the anti-immigrant message “Build the wall higher” and numerous references to Donald Trump.
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[A] custodian arrived about 6 a.m. Monday morning and found graffiti on buildings, walls, doors, garbage can lids and elsewhere.
About 75 percent of the more than 1,100 students at the dual immersion school, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade and teaches in both Spanish and English, are Latino… .
“My kids noticed it before I did,” [a mother and school liaison] said. “They know about Trump and the wall that he wants, so they knew exactly what it was about.”
“This is going straight to little kids. The janitor tried his best to get as much of it covered as he can in the morning, but the kids still saw it, and they’re really rattled by it,” [the principal] said.