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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchools Cancel White House Tours, Fearing That Trump Might Teach Kids History (Borowitz)
https://bit.ly/2sFFjP3Schools Cancel White House Tours, Fearing That Trump Might Teach Kids History
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Schools across the country have cancelled tours of the White House out of concern that a chance encounter with Donald J. Trump could lead to an attempt by the President to teach their students history.
In an advisory sent to the nations schools on Thursday, the American Educators Consortium urged teachers to scrap all scheduled trips to the White House in order to prevent the hard work you and your students have been doing from being totally undone.
Carol Foyler, a middle-school history teacher from Bethesda, Maryland, spoke of a scary moment during a White House tour last week when her class had a near-miss with Trump. We were walking by the Oval Office, the door was open, and I could see he was in there, the educator said. I just said to my kids, Keep your heads down and walk fast.
Foyler said that she considers herself lucky to have protected her students from the devastating impact of Trumps ignorance, and acknowledges that the situation could have been much worse. What if we had been walking through the West Wing and found ourselves face to face with Trump and Betsy DeVos? she said. I dont even want to think about it.
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Schools Cancel White House Tours, Fearing That Trump Might Teach Kids History (Borowitz) (Original Post)
Stonepounder
Jun 2018
OP
What makes this so bitingly funny is that this is what we should really do to protect kids.
The Wielding Truth
Jun 2018
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Gothmog
(145,321 posts)1. I love good satire
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)2. What makes this so bitingly funny is that this is what we should really do to protect kids.
matt819
(10,749 posts)3. All joking aside
I would like to know if school trips and tourist visits to the WH are down. I guess the same question would apply to visits to Congress.