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What Kids Think About Bullying And Kindness In The Trump Era

A national survey of elementary school students asks about kindness as well as cruelty.
Source: LA Johnson

"There was a girl in my class who had on dirty clothes. The other kids laughed at her but I played with her during recess."

That's an everyday act of kindness toward a child who is being ostracized. It was reported by an elementary school student who took part in a new, nationally-representative survey of children ages 9 to 11. The purpose was to capture not only the bad, but

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