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Joshua Rothman on a Mock Election at a New York High School

Episode Summary

<p>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.</p>

Episode Notes

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.