I Failed the Covington Catholic Test
Next time there’s a viral story, I’ll wait for more facts to emerge.
by Julie Irwin Zimmerman
Jan 21, 2019
3 minutes
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 hat, was everything I wanted my teenagers not to be.
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