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Montana Student: Incidents and Educators Note

montana student: A Montana student photographed with a gun accompanied with a racial epithet, according to Toronto Star. Racial incidents are appearing to pop up at an alarming rate in the United States' public schools. Pennsylvania students posing with swastika-carved pumpkins. There were roughly 80 incidents in October alone, by one expert's count, including a Chicago-area student who was charged with a hate crime for racially charged posts on social media. But it's far trickier to assess whether there's an increase numerically, with no organization or agency consistently tracking the issue over time. Many educators note a spike anecdotally, and social media can give such incidents wider and faster exposure. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.