Kennedy Waterman - This School is Holding a Presidential Election — But Trump and Clinton Aren’t on the Ballot

At the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor in Michigan, Laura Pasek, an elementary school teacher, wanted to teach her students about the current presidential election. However, she felt that some of the messages the campaign was giving off, as well as the disrespect being showed, was not appropriate to teach the kids. Instead, she is teaching them about elections with the election of 1800 as the model. They will also be holding a school-wide election between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

This is so cool! The article was written on the 19th, so it's up to date with where we are in the election currently. Before reading it, I myself have definitely seen the uncanny resemblance of our election with the one in 1800. Both have been very, very dirty, with the 2 parties and their heads as strong and inexorable as their past/future counterparts. The article, though on the topic of something very negative in these past few months, is very positive. Those kids are going to get to learn about messy politics without having to be scarred from learning about the current campaign! To me, the article was written to compare the two elections, and show how scarily similar they are. It's important to read because we think of American history as old and irrelevant, but clearly, history repeats itself. This election will certainly go down in history. Obviously, the article can be related to the election of 1800. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Aaron Burr were going head to head. These 3 guys loom just as large as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. To quote some Hamilton lyrics, "it's lose-lose."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/10/19/this-school-is-holding-a-presidential-election-but-not-the-one-you-think/