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"Parents, Talk to Your Kids About... Spitzer"
Here's the inevitable AP story about how parents and teachers are struggling to explain Spitzer's resignation and legal/sexual/marital troubles to children and young people:
Gil Rosa's high school students were young children when Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky threatened his presidency.
A decade later, the news that Gov. Eliot Spitzer was caught consorting with high-priced hookers left students in his social studies class largely unfazed.
"My kids are desensitized," said Rosa, who teaches at School Without Walls in Rochester, N.Y. "They're like, 'Whatever.'"
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