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What Romney should have said to schoolchildren about his ‘prank’ and bullying - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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What Romney should have said to schoolchildren about his ‘prank’ and bullying

My colleague Jason Horowitz wrote in this Washington Post story about how Mitt Romney, when he was a senior at an elite private high school in Michigan, led a group of boys who “tackled” a boy who was presumed to be gay and had bleached-blond hair, held him down and chopped his hair off with a scissors even as the boy pleaded for help.
A spokesman for Romney told Horowitz that the presumptive Republican presidential candidate didn’t remember the incident which was the most serious of many “pranks” Romney was reported to have engaged in as a student.

Center, Mitt Romney at 14/ Left, right, Cranbrook School. (S. Springsteen | FTP)
Yes, Romney said he didn’t remember behavior that today would clearly