Ben Carson’s star rose from rough beginnings

Ben Carson’s star rose from rough beginnings

This article is part of a series of profiles of the 2016 presidential candidates that will appear on the NewBostonPost in the months leading up to the nominating conventions. 

Oh! That mine enemy would write a book! I had written a book, and it has furnished a matter of abuse for want of something better.
— Thomas Jefferson, March 1789.
Schools find campaign talk conflicts with no-bullies message
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Schools find campaign talk conflicts with no-bullies message

Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Lysek rose to become vice president of his fifth-grade class at Lorraine Academy in Buffalo, New York, after the sitting vice president got bounced for saying things that went against the school's anti-bullying rules. So the 10-year-old is a little puzzled that candidates running to lead the entire country can get away with name-calling and foul language.

The nasty personal tweets and sound bites of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign are reverberating in classrooms, running counter to the anti-bullying policies that have emerged in recent years amid several high-profile suicides.

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