They didn’t get the White House tour they had hoped for, but the group of Iowa students who are pushing the White House to reopen tours to the public made it to the White House gates Saturday morning.

The 6th graders from St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa posed for photos outside the White House while holding individual paper signs spelling out the phrase, “The White House is our house! Please let us visit!”

Onlookers cheered the kids in the efforts, with one may saying, “Way to go kids!”

“It’s kind of disappointing, but it’s still kind of fun to see the White House,” Mosai Newsom, one of the sixth grade students, said.

President Obama told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos earlier this week that the administration is trying to find a way to reinstate the tours for school groups, but it did not happen before the students from Waverly, Iowa made it to Washington, D.C.

“The Secret Service and the White House are talking about what is possible. I would not anticipate that opening tours that soon would be possible,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said earlier this week, when asked about the students.

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It's a disgrace that these sixth graders were not allowed to tour the white house. Our president is a petty disgrace and a racist to boot!

When I was a child I went to Washington D.C. and Virginia. I saw everything. Arlington, the monuments and memorials, the Smithsonian, the White House, Mount Vernon and Monticello. I don't remember much of the White House, just the long, wide hallways and the china room. It really wasn't that memorable to me. I was a kid and the building itself wasn't that interesting because so much of it was closed off.

My sister-in-law and her husband toured the White House the right way. They arranged it through their congressman. And they got a private tour of GWBush's Oval Office.

I am sorry that these children do not get to the White House because it never should have been closed to them. It takes a lot of planning for these trips and they should have been allowed in. It is their house.

But in the end, I think they will learn valuable lessons about political power. They will remember what was done to them. And they will have a healthy distrust of government for the rest of their lives. That will serve them well.