The ballot, posted on Facebook by ABC 7 reporter Kristin Thorne, lists four candidate options:

“Bagel with Yogurt”

“Chicken Nuggets”

“Mozzarella Sticks”

“I Bring My Own Lunch from Home”

The vote will take place Friday, reported ABC 7.

One elementary school on Long Island cancelled its mock election this year because discussions between the kids about... Posted by Kristin Thorne on Monday, October 31, 2016

“Children in the cafeteria would bring up things about minorities and the voting and the candidates,” principal Glen Rogers told the TV station. “And there were some negative things said.”

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Students talked to ABC 7 about the canceled election and the bitterness of this election cycle that has, inevitably, leaked into their learning environment. Much of what they’d said at school — the things that got their mock election canceled — was phraseology overheard at home.

“Some people were getting angry because some people like Trump and some people like Clinton,” fifth-grader Miranda Waters told the TV station. “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.”

This canceled mock election is only the most recent example of the way the 2016 presidential election — its divisive platforms, racially charged rhetoric and, at times, even violence — has reconfigured the way educators across the country are teaching their students about American politics.

Topics surfaced not just in news headlines or polarized rallies, but during nationally televised presidential debates, have included such adult topics as implications about the size of Donald Trump’s manhood, allegations of sexual assault, lewd comments about women — which included the word “p‑‑‑y” — anti-Muslim rhetoric, accusations that Mexicans are “rapists” and the plan to build a border-protecting wall.

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Teachers told Washington Post reporter Moriah Balingit in October that the themes in this election have changed the way they teach civility, government and history.

“This is the first time I’ve really said to myself, ‘I can’t cover this election like I want to because it’s not school-appropriate,’ ” Kris Goldstein, a senior government teacher in California, told Balingit. “There’s certain things I don’t want to be talking about.”

One of those things, Goldstein said, was how Trump attacked a critic and told the public to watch her sex tape.

In a Tampa Bay Times story on teachers there, 12-year-old Dianerra Justiniano asked during her seventh-grade class last February: “If Donald Trump becomes president, do you think things would be bad?”

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And the lurid language hasn’t just affected classrooms — it’s invaded family rooms, too.

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After The Post posted a 2005 recording of Trump bragging that fame allowed him to kiss and grope women without their permission, including grabbing them “by the p‑‑‑y,” parents reported hearing their children asking disturbing questions.

“What does it mean to grab somebody by the p‑‑‑y?” Rachael MacIsaac Parker’s 6-year-old daughter asked while watching TV, Parker told The Post in October.

If anything, the divisive language this election has forced parents and teachers alike to have difficult discussions with their children about democracy.

That’s why the school in Long Island opted for the replacement vote on school lunches.

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“We wanted to think of something where students could have the experience of voting in preparation for Election Day,” Rogers, the principal, told ABC 7. “So at least they would be excited about voting for something.”