Dozens of New Jersey Middle School Students Refused to Pose for a Picture With Paul Ryan on Their Class Trip
PoliticsSome very sensible 8th grade students from New Jersey would not deign to be seen in a photograph with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan during their field trip to Washington. About half of the 150 South Orange Middle School students on the trip watched from a parking lot as the rest of their cohort sidled up to Ryan for a picture they probably untagged themselves from hours later.
Matthew Malespina, one of the students who refused to pose, told the Washington Post on Sunday, “I don’t want to be associated with a man who puts his party before his country. I don’t like to take a picture with somebody that I can’t associate with. Let’s say somebody is not nice to met at school, for example. I wouldn’t take a picture with them, probably.”