Erin Elmore Philly School’s on Anti-NRA, Anti-Trump Signs: Children Are Being Used as Political Pawns

‘They are being used as political pawns and it’s scary’

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ELMORE: "They only represent one point of view. These are actually divisive signs. Our president, as a member of the GOP, he won the election. This is simply divisive. Also, the Philadelphia School District has only a 70 percent graduation rate, 10 percent below national average. Doesn’t the school have an obligation to teach our children how to read, how to do math, science? Instead they are posting things that are just divisive. Schools are supposed to be safe places."
EARHARDT: "Was this an assignment? Like, the older kids in the school, the fifth graders, were they assigned to make these posters?"
ELMORE: "We don’t know yet. All I know is children as young as 5 go to this school. They are being used as political pawns and it’s scary."

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