Politico reports that fears of a rise in school bullying due to the so-called "Trump effect" have turned out to be unwarranted.

Prior to the presidential election, teachers unions and school advocacy groups warned that schoolkids would take a cue from Trump's "bullying" campaign style and begin mimicking that behavior no the playground. But newly-obtained data from a handful of school districts shows that such behavior has not materialized.

Politico requested reports of bullying and harassment from more than a dozen school districts, including some of the biggest districts in the nation and some located in battleground states where heated campaign rhetoric likely was more intense. Seven districts so far -- Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Fairfax (Virginia), Houston (Texas), Denver (Colorado), Wake County (North Carolina), Portland (Oregon) and Columbus City (Ohio) -- provided data which show no significant spike in reported incidents.

Politico has more details:

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights also provided data showing reports of racial harassment appear to be happening at about the same rate this fiscal year as in the previous few years. In fact, those incidents reached a peak of 404 in fiscal year 2013 and have declined since. Fiscal year 2016 saw 344 incidents reported in K-12 schools across the nation, according to the office. There have been 53 incidents reported so far in fiscal year 2017 (which started in October).

The nation’s four biggest districts -- New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami-Dade -- have not yet responded, while the Philadelphia school district refused to provide data, saying the information was not public under state law.

Politico qualified the results by warning that many bullying incidents likely go unreported, and the data only includes reports through November; nonetheless, Politico concedes that the numbers "provide a useful snapshot of bullying activity in K-12 districts across the country."

Uncomfortable with the survey's results, Politico also felt compelled to add that there is anecdotal evidence that tensions rose in schools both during and after the election, such as racist graffiti alongside the phrases “Trump Train” and “Make America Great Again” found in a school’s restrooms. This sounds suspiciously like a hoax, as many similar incidents around the country have proven to be.

Also, Politico noted that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) conducted an online survey immediately after the election which reported that 80 percent of the 10,000-plus teachers, counselors and administrators who responded said tensions were higher at schools and that students were anxious about their futures.

Of course, the SPLC is a leftist smear organization posing as a civil rights watchdog, so anything it reports is questionable at best. And the "feelings" of largely left-leaning teachers and school administrators, as well as those of impressionable students, are not facts, and the facts show that any "Trump effect" exists not in the real world but in the paranoid, hysteric minds of Democrats.