A High School Mock Election Keeps it Real
The New Yorker Radio Hour | Dec 4, 2015
Townsend Harris High School, a competitive magnet school in Queens, mounted a school-wide Presidential-election simulation, with students playing the candidates, pollsters, fundraisers, and journalists. This civics lesson got intense, especially when the student playing Donald Trump unleashed some Trump-style sexism on the student playing Hillary Clinton.
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