[Wash Times] A New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted "Trump" and repeated "negative rhetoric about minorities," according to the school principal.
Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too heated.
"Some people were getting angry because some people like Trump and some people like Clinton," fifth-grader Miranda Waters told a local ABC News affiliate. "Some people think Clinton’s not good. Some think Trump’s not good. So there’s a lot of arguments going on, and I don’t like that."
School officials decided to cancel the mock election to prevent minority students "from feeling uncomfortable," according to Glen Rogers, the school’s principal.
"Teachers have said they’ve heard some kids in the cafeteria chanting ’Trump! Trump! Trump!’ or saying they don’t want Muslims here," Mr. Rogers told ABC News.
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