Immigrant students across the US have experienced increased bullying, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns causing declines in attendance and a “culture of fear” among immigrant students in public schools, according to a new survey of high school principals.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access conducted a “nationally representative” survey of more than 600 principals about the toll of raids and deportations, and how schools were responding.
Many principals described a “climate of distress”, the report found, with 70.4% reporting that students from immigrant families have “expressed concerns about their well-being or the well-being of their families”. A majority of public high schools experienced declines in attendance and learning of students from immigrant families, the report said, with 57.8% of principals reporting that immigrant parents and guardians had “left the community” during the school year.
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