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Agreed.

Now, how do we educate kids about it WM? I'm surprised at the insignificant level of knowledge my students have about government of any form. It's as though government and history weren't being taught them at all. This knowledge base is critical to an individual understanding consequences of elections, legal decisions and enactment of laws.

Now, how do we educate kids about it WM? I'm surprised at the insignificant level of knowledge my students have about government of any form. It's as though government and history weren't being taught them at all. This knowledge base is critical to an individual understanding consequences of elections, legal decisions and enactment of laws.

A suggestion: The Founding Fathers arrived at the idea of the separation of powers from the experience of seeing what it was like when all the power was invested in one branch of government under the absolutist kings of the 17th-18th centuries. Maybe reviewing the abuses of earlier one-branch systems would help students appreciate where the Founding Fathers were coming from on that.

One of the first things we have to do it TAKE BACK THE LANGUAGE! I don't ever use the term 'gay' to describe that lifestyle because it is anything but! I use the term homosexual , and homosexual unions. What they want is NOT marriage and never will be. GAY means happy or lighthearted. SSQ and I have had a GAY marriage for over 28 years, and God willing will continue on for many more.

If we all begin to do that, maybe folks will notice.

Now, how do we educate kids about it WM? I'm surprised at the insignificant level of knowledge my students have about government of any form. It's as though government and history weren't being taught them at all. This knowledge base is critical to an individual understanding consequences of elections, legal decisions and enactment of laws.

I am not surprised at all that students are clueless regarding government. They don't get it at home because their parents are ambivalent, and what they get at school is window dressing. I mean, here, they get civics in what 7th grade? and a semester of government in their senior year of high school. As if that is enough to prepare them!

In addition, I remember doing current events daily. These days, current events consists of entertainment news. Not the real stuff. Newspapers and news reporting in general have deteriorated beyond reconition in many cases. I don't think kids even watch the news anymore, much less are in general literate enough to read the newspapers and get the significant news out of 'em.