Students’ sometimes-surprising presidential preferences

Joe Nathan
Education Columnist
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and educators in 280 Minnesota high schools did a wise thing this fall: They asked students, grades nine through 12, who they supported for president of the United States. broadstreet.zone(48036);
As of Nov. 1, when initial results were released, about 77,000 students from Minnesota rural, suburban and urban, public and private schools had voted. Some of the results were not what I would have expected. Results are available for each individual high school at http://bit.ly/2fe0cI9.
As you consider Minnesota and national results on Election Day, you might want to compare how students voted, especially in your local community.
The first surprise, at least for me, was that almost a third of the high school students who voted preferred someone other than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump: 35 percent of students voted for Trump and 33 percent voted for Clinton, so 32 percent had another preference.
Nine percent

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