[tuckrdout]

Our teachers in the 60’s and 70’s always involved the kids in school. We had mock campaigns, and everyone voted, during the presidential election.

I remember one teacher even took us on a field trip to both the Democratic and the Republican headquarters, in our county. She was decidedly a Democrat, but only encouraged me, when I grabbed up the NIXON bumper stickers!

No wonder our schools are in the toilet. Teachers have traded social indoctrination for education.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Same here. I remember our HS went to see Nixon at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis on Thursday September 26, 1968 (well, Google helped me cheat a bit on the exact date). I remember being absolutely bored silly at the time because I couldn't vote for another 4 years. But at least Civics education was real at that time -- unlike today's cretins at the Urban Community Leadership Academy in KC.

Note that Nixon was courting the "youth vote" at the time. Now that I think about it, it was kind of strange that he was wooing high schoolers who couldn't vote.

[RedMonqey]

Our teachers in the 60's and 70's always involved the kids in school.

We had one like that in the fifth grade. She used to get Time, Newsweek and Life magazines for our use during Reading Time. (I still remember seeing the naked Vietnamese girl who had been hit by napalm )Looking back, she was undoubtedly liberal at that time but she never told us what to think but to read about the issues, which at that time was the Vietnam war, Watergate and Detente

She would be apalled (I hope she would )by the actions of this "teacher"