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Students Picked Cotton During History Class — Is That Traumatizing?

Students Picked Cotton During History Class — Is That Traumatizing?

“I was very scared,” said one mom

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I’ve always loved museums. I hated reading about history or social studies in school, but I loved looking at museum displays, the reenactment of past living, and the haunting mannequins.

Growing up just outside of Washington, D.C., I remember begging my dad every weekend to take me to either the Natural History Museum …

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