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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 3918605" data-attributes="member: 1940"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/" target="_blank">I Failed the Covington Catholic Test</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/" target="_blank">Next time there’s a viral story, I’ll wait for more facts to emerge. The Atlantic</a>Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March. The story felt personal to me; I live a few miles from the high school, and my son attends a nearby all-boys Catholic high school. I texted him right away, ready with a lesson on what the students had done wrong.“They were menacing a man much older than them,” I told him, “and chanting ‘Build the wall!’ And this smirking kid blocked his path and wouldn’t let him leave.” The short video, the subject of at least two-thirds of my Twitter feed on Saturday, made me cringe, and the smirking kid, in particular, got to me: His smugness, radiating from under that red MAGA hat, was everything I wanted my teenagers not to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 3918605, member: 1940"] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/julie-irwin-zimmerman-i-failed-covington-catholic-test/580897/'][SIZE=6][B]I Failed the Covington Catholic Test[/B][/SIZE] Next time there’s a viral story, I’ll wait for more facts to emerge. The Atlantic[/URL] [I]Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March. The story felt personal to me; I live a few miles from the high school, and my son attends a nearby all-boys Catholic high school. I texted him right away, ready with a lesson on what the students had done wrong. “They were menacing a man much older than them,” I told him, “and chanting ‘Build the wall!’ And this smirking kid blocked his path and wouldn’t let him leave.” The short video, the subject of at least two-thirds of my Twitter feed on Saturday, made me cringe, and the smirking kid, in particular, got to me: His smugness, radiating from under that red MAGA hat, was everything I wanted my teenagers not to be.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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