It's come to this

When he and his classmates from South Orange Middle School had the chance to take a picture with the speaker. Matthew watched from the parking lot with 100 of his fellow students.

“It’s being associated with a person who puts his party before his country,” Matthew said.

The students were on a field trip to Washington. Matthew found out the night before.

“I’m just not going to do it,” Matthew texted his mother.

“Say you would rather not,” she wrote back. And Matthew agreed.