{"id":17855,"date":"2017-04-27T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:53:14","slug":"middle-school-students-join-national-discussion-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2017\/04\/middle-school-students-join-national-discussion-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle school students join national discussion about Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/RaisingTheFlag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17861\" \/><br \/>\nSan Francisco visual arts instructor Caren Andrews asked her students to add their voices to the nationwide conversation regarding Trump&#8217;s first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews believes the U.S. Constitution is vital in an era where civil rights are up for debate. So &#8211; inspired by a 1960s Bill of Rights poster published by the ACLU &#8211; Andrews asked her middle school students at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffriendsschool.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em>San Francisco Friends School<\/em><\/a> to create their own set of political posters. Andrews encouraged her students to respond through visual art to other political issues, such as the gender pay gap, abortion, and LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth grader Billie Breskin re-purposed the iconic photograph \u201cRaising the Flag on Iwo Jima\u201d by replacing the stars and stripes in the famous image with the rainbow colors of the pride flag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of being American is protecting what&#8217;s back home,&#8221; Breskin says. &#8220;I wanted to do something truly patriotic, but present it in a way that includes the LGBT community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/arts\/2017\/04\/26\/we-the-people-in-a-middle-school-classroom-in-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED<\/a><br \/>\nphoto: <em>Raising the Flag on America<\/em> by Billie Breskin. 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