The controversy is over a two-page document that was handed out to classrooms at Kapolei Middle School.
It broke down where the U.S. presidential candidates — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump — stand on the issues.
The state Department of Education confirms the document was put together by a group of teachers at the school who simplified the information in a candidate comparison article in the New York Times.
The material given out to students lists six issues.
CRIME
Harris: “Gives money to police”
Trump: “Sends soldiers to cities”
DEMOCRACY
Harris: “Wants to keep our country a democracy”
Trump: “Tried to overturn the 2020 election
IMMIGRATION
Harris: “Hires more people to watch the border”
Harris: “Limits how many people can move to the U.S.
Trump: “Finds and catches people in the U.S. illegally”
Trump: “Takes children away from their parents”
Not a single Trumper can explain why this was unfair because their homie likes to grab pussy and fucks underage girls with Epstein.
And actually said/did all these things listed.
“The MeDyA Is UnFaIr!!1!”
For just stating how your favorite little guy is?
Seems remarkably honest, much more honest than our presidential candidates.
Agreed. About the only way they could increase their objectivity would be by using the candidate’s own, recent words on the various topics.
Somehow, I think there would be far more outrage if they had done that…
I like how when you put the two candidates into 8th grade level language, the differences become so stark. There really isn’t room for additional interpretation.
Also, I’m not surprised its Kapolei parents getting outraged at this, things get fairly red once you get out of Honolulu and especially as you get onto the West Side. You’ll see a Trump flag being towed along side a Kanaka Maoli flag, a back the blue flag, AND a Hawaiian kingdom flag. I’m glad to see the DOE not budging on this.
Should they have included each candidate’s stance on grabbing women by their privates?
I love how even a biased take, trying to paint Harris much further left than she actually is, still went hard on Harris’ right-wing anti-immigration policies as if they were a good thing. LoL.
I read the headline and thought the controversy was probably stupid. Then I read the comparisons.
They should have pulled out planks from the party platforms. At least write what the party says it is going to do in its own words. It’s OK to simplify, but this list is heavily editorialized. I don’t know how much of that was from the NYT article (editorial?) and how much was the teacher’s take.
I think it would be fine to have these characterizations of each party’s policies in Speech & Debate coming from the opponents.
