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Students call GOP candidates' behavior immature

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After last night's GOP debate was filled with insults, students at Salem High School in Canton called the candidates' behavior immature.

"There was a lot of shouting and it was hard to hear everyone's point over everyone else's," said 11th grader Rachel Spalding.

The candidates were debating, but not about public policies, rather private parts.

Civics teacher Bill Boyd told students, "If this was how you guys were talking to each other in this class, you'd be written up and probably suspended."

Students in Boyd's class have been watching the candidates closely and call this type of behavior immature.

"They are grown men and they are arguing about hand size and calling each other names. I've only been here 16 years, but I've never seen this before," 11th grader Brendan Nordberg explained.  "It's like middle school."

Some students don't want to see this type behavior in a presidential debate.

"That has nothing to do with the debate at all," explained Alexis Cobb, an 11th Grader.

"I just find it to be bullying. This is such a problem in high school. I just don't understand why adults don't get the concept.  It's not okay."

The students want candidates to stick with the issues not insults.

Spalding added, "They should just step up their game and act a little more like someone who is ready to lead our country."