Man denied boarding, while his 16 kids fly without him
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Okay I have to admit when I first saw this story, I thought we were talking about a man with 16 BIOLOGICAL kids and I thought “Woah and I thought *I* had a lot of kids!!!”. As it turns out, this story involves a man named Mark Westphal, a Minnesota history teacher who was chaperoning 16 middle school kids (ages 11 to 14) as they returned from a trip to Washington DC on American Airlines.
What happened here?
Well… we don’t know for sure. As is typical with these types of stories, there’s a lot of “he said, she said” and each side has an incentive to make themselves look as good as possible. Trying to read between the lines, here’s at least some of the facts
- Mark Westpfahl, a Minnesota history teacher, was…
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