About 30 schoolchildren took a field trip Tuesday afternoon – not to the aquarium – but rather to City Hall, the epicenter of Occupy Los Angeles.
The fifth- through eighth-grade students from Sequoyah, a private school in Pasadena, munched on their lunches while protesters engaged them in discourse about how democracy works.
That was the purpose behind the field trip, said language arts and social studies teacher Susanna Barkataki, whose class also sat in on a City Council meeting and will soon hear a "tea party" member speak.
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"My goal as a teacher, regardless of my own personal beliefs, is to expose the students to as many viewpoints as possible," Barkataki said as she watched her students explore the Occupy L.A. encampment. "We're here to get first-hand experience."
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