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Jahana Hayes: “People forget that young people are watching.”

Featuring: Jahana Hayes, Democratic | U.S. House, Connecticut, District 5

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Ms President US Guest Speaker_ Rep. Jahana Hayes (CT-5th) 2021

Published | Video Starts at 41:45

I always, like, I could never lose my cool in the classroom because my students were watching. And I think sometimes in government, you don't have those guardrails. People forget that young people are watching. It's a little bit hard to say mean things or be disrespectful when you have 28 young people looking back at you. (41:45–41:49)

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Asserts that people often forget that young people observe their actions.

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