High school journalists were barred from a Betsy DeVos event. They took her to task in an editorial.
The students were on deadline, and they were on a mission.
They piled into a car last Wednesday and pulled away from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, their public school in Lexington, Ky. With permission, they drove across town to a community college where their Republican governor, Matt Bevin, was hosting a roundtable discussion on education featuring Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
The high schoolers — writers and editors for their school paper, the PLD Lamplighter — believed they were following the advice offered by DeVos last fall when she counseled, “It is easy to be nasty hiding behind screens and Twitter handles. It’s not so easy face to face.”
So the student journalists turned away from their screens and social media apps. They went in pursuit, they would later say, of “that face-to-face opportunity."
They would never get it. They were shut out of the roundtable, advertised as an “open press event,” because they had not sent in an RSVP to an invitation they had never received and didn’t realize was required.
Unable to document the event, or query DeVos in person, they set about investigating the circumstances of her private appearance at the public community college. Ultimately, they penned an editorial flaying the education secretary and the Kentucky governor, accusing them of paying lip service to the needs of students while excluding them from the conversation.
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by students from a state that many take for granted as being solid "red" and "Trumplodites."
It is seeing efforts by students like this that does give hope in such an ugly time.
Go Get 'Em, Kids!! 
