DENVER ‒ School districts representing hundreds of thousands of students nationally have reported attendance drops in the wake of highly publicized ICE raids, with some classrooms seeing as many as two-thirds of students temporarily absent.

Rebecca, a high school teacher in El Paso who has been teaching for eight years and asked to withhold her last name to avoid professional retaliation, sees it as “a real slap in the face and an assault on everything that I know a school should be,