For Students, Obama's Victory Offers Lesson in Civics
For students in two Washington-area school districts, the election of the nation’s first black president provided a chance to live through history, not just learn it.
Chanell Richardson, a 17-year-old senior at Potomac Senior High School in Dumfries, Va., couldn’t contain herself last night when CNN announced that Mr. Obama would be the next president of the United States.
“I ran outside, in the rain, screaming Obama ’08! Obama ’08!” Ms. Richardson said this morning. “I didn’t go to sleep last night....
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