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On November 30, 2018, former president George H.W. Bush passed away in Houston, Texas at the age of 94. While millions across the nation mourned the death of the 41st President of the United States, high school students were unsure of who Bush was.<\/p>\n
\tThe former president was widely known for his administration\u2019s stance on international relations and foreign affairs, yet when questioned about Bush, local high school student Kevin Smith replied, \u201cIs he the one who did 9\/11?\u201d It would appear current high schoolers simply don\u2019t know anything about former presidents or the events that occurred on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n
\tNews outlets across the country reported mixed findings when conducting surveys at local high schools. For example, the New York Daily Star<\/i>, the epitome of journalistic integrity, disclosed that upon asking high school students who George H.W. Bush was, they responded, \u201cIsn\u2019t he the old white one?\u201d which surprisingly did not prompt further questioning given that the student\u2019s description eliminated just one of 45 Presidents in the nation\u2019s history. \u201cYeah, they probably had a good grasp on who he was,\u201d explained Mark Weinberg of the Daily Star<\/i>, \u201cIt would have been redundant to keep asking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIn Florida\u2019s panhandle, interest in recent national news was low. When questioned on the reaction of her peers to the news of a President\u2019s death, Julie Moore claimed, \u201cI have seen no difference,\u201d before adding, \u201cbut people were really upset our school\u2019s mascot, an albino gator, accidentally ingested crack and had to be rushed to the animal ER, that\u2019s probably been the biggest news here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In LA county, reporters interviewed high school juniors, finding that they too had no idea who the former President was. Interestingly, rather than accept he did not know who the veteran-turned-President was, one student elected to play it off as though he did know who Bush was. Edgar Christensen, when asked his opinions of the President\u2019s foreign policies, explained, \u201cWell, he abolished slavery so naturally we do stan that in this house, but I\u2019ve gotta say, the war on Afghanistan and the housing crisis were not as cool as they could have been, you know what I mean?\u201d Many students nodded in agreement as Christensen spoke.<\/p>\n
George H.W. Bush is to be laid to rest in the coming days at Texas A&M, but apparently that doesn\u2019t matter to anyone younger than 18.<\/p>\n
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By Christian Villanueva Dec. 4, 2018 On November 30, 2018, former president George H.W. Bush passed away in Houston, Texas at the age of 94. While millions across the nation mourned the death of the 41st President of the United States, high school students were unsure of who Bush was. The former president was widely known for his administration\u2019s stance on international relations and foreign affairs, yet when questioned about Bush, local high school student Kevin Smith replied, \u201cIs he the one who did 9\/11?\u201d It would appear current high schoolers simply don\u2019t know anything about former presidents or the events that occurred on September 11, 2001. News outlets across the country reported mixed findings when conducting surveys at local high schools. For example, the New York Daily Star, the epitome of journalistic integrity, disclosed that upon asking high school students who George H.W. Bush was, they responded, \u201cIsn\u2019t he the old white one?\u201d which surprisingly did not prompt further questioning given that the student\u2019s description eliminated just one of 45 Presidents in the nation\u2019s history. \u201cYeah, they probably had a good grasp on who he was,\u201d explained Mark Weinberg of the Daily Star, \u201cIt would have been redundant to keep asking.\u201d In Florida\u2019s panhandle, interest in recent national news was low. When questioned on the reaction of her peers to the news of a President\u2019s death, Julie Moore claimed, \u201cI have seen no difference,\u201d before adding, \u201cbut people were really upset our school\u2019s mascot, an albino gator, accidentally ingested crack and had to be rushed to the animal ER, that\u2019s probably been the biggest news here.\u201d In LA county, reporters interviewed high school juniors, finding that they too had no idea who the former President was. Interestingly, rather than accept he did not know who the veteran-turned-President was, one student elected to play it off as though he did know who Bush was. Edgar Christensen, when asked his opinions of the President\u2019s foreign policies, explained, \u201cWell, he abolished slavery so naturally we do stan that in this house, but I\u2019ve gotta say, the war on Afghanistan and the housing crisis were not as cool as they could have been, you know what I mean?\u201d Many students nodded in agreement as Christensen spoke. George H.W. Bush is to be laid to rest in the coming days at Texas A&M, but apparently that doesn\u2019t matter to anyone younger than 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}