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Park Elementary fourth-graders pick Clinton

The polls are up and down, but if the fourth-graders in Beth Brunso’s class at Park Elementary School are any indication, the presidency will go to Hillary Clinton in a landslide as seen in this screenshot of the class’ vote results on the Newsela website.

While there are no polls indicating local voters’ intentions regarding the 2016 presidential race, if

The students in Beth Brunso’s class are studying the election and how government works.

One of their sources has been Newsela, a digital media product that takes stories written by media outlets such as the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times and makes them appropriate for a young audience.

Newsela offered participating classrooms the opportunity to “vote” in the election, and Brunso’s class took advantage of it.

The results were tallied late Wednesday, with Clinton receiving 67.1 percent of the votes, followed by Republican nominee Donald J. Trump with 20.5 percent, Libertarian Gary Johnson with 9.6 percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein taking 2.7 percent.

Adults will have to wait until Nov. 8 – or maybe even later – to find out who will be sworn in Jan. 20, but the fourth-graders can proceed to their next lesson plan, knowing they have lived up to their patriotic responsibility.

Herald Staff

Editor’s note: Because of insults to children, comments were removed from this story.

Herald Staff

Oct 11, 2016
Students learn about candidates, issues, civics


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