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Kindergartners try to stump professor, get taste of college

Professor Ken Mayer calls it the UW-Madison version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”

Every spring he invites Josh Reinekingâ??s kindergarten class into his 350-student lecture, Political Science 104: Introduction to American National Government, to the amusement of his students, the kindergartners and himself.

A day earlier Mayer goes to their classroom at Stephens Elementary School on the West Side and challenges them to come up with questions to stump him.