The teacher in third-grade social studies class:
“Children, there’s going to be a presidential election soon. One candidate is Kamala Harris.”
Children: “Boo!”
Teacher: “Another candidate is Donald Trump.”
Children: “Yay!”
The teacher didn’t reveal her support for either candidate. I asked. I’m glad because I despise teachers who inflict their politics on students.
This is not surprising at a Christian school. I would guess a majority of these kids have Republican parents.
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I remember doing “elections” at my (protestant church) school– we dropped little paper ballots in boxes. I think it was Bush v Dukakis. There were like three Dukakis votes in the entire school and they were probably just being contrarian. People willing to send their kids to church-affiliated private schools skew heavily republican 😉
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To be fair, considering how that election went, I’m guessing the vote shook out similarly at public schools
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I remember doing one of these mock elections in my fourth grade classroom during the 1996 election season.
I voted for Ross Perot.
Even 10-year-old me hated partisanship, it seems.
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RIGHT??
I just can’t with blind partisanship. It’s so primitive.
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