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Hate At School Report: As Incidents Escalate, Disciplinary Action And News Coverage Lag Behind

On Second Thought
On Second Thought
Episode • May 6, 2019 • 13m
Grade school teachers reported more than 3,000 hate incidents in schools during the fall 2018 semester, a new survey from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program has found . Those incidents, however, often went undisciplined by school leaders – and less than a third made it into the news. Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello joined On Second Thought on the line from Montgomery, Alabama, to share more of the report's findings.