Here's What College Students Are Saying After the Election
I let class out 40 minutes early on Wednesday after the election and told my students they could stay if they wanted to talk about campus climate, about the election, about anything that was on their minds. About 1/3 of them stayed. Here are just some of the things my students told me today in that conversation, or privately before or after, as close to their words as I can get with my less-than-stellar memory (with some minor changes to respect privacy--this is tough, because I feel I need to share this, but also want to hold sacred what they said): "My family had a meeting. We've figured out we're not welcome here anymore. We're going back to Mexico as soon as the semester is over." "We're all conservative where I come from. But then I see what the College Republicans are doing on campus, I hear some of the things Trump says. But if I say that I don't agree with everything the liberal students do, then I'm the bad one, the stupid ...