Day one is fun. It reminds me of that Key & Peele substitute teacher skit. "A-A-Ron?" I would, one day, love to purposefully mispronounce all the names. But I digress. First day is rough. You gotta cover logistics, but you don't want to bore the kids to death. I change our opening "warmup" every year, looking for that one golden goose. Besides the logistics, I love to pose the essential question to my kids. "Why do we need to take government." Oh, the answers are great. So much fun. "So you have a paycheck." "To torture me." "I was hoping you would tell me." When you ask them what it is, they answer names. Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, McCain. Wait, kids. We live in a dictatorship? An oligarchy? No, it's a bit more than that. It's an institution, no? We don't name names in the preamble, we name offices. We spend time analyzing this little video... People on the Street And then we cycle back to my favorite document... by my favorite ginger, and (some people say our favorite plagarist), TJ. LIFE LIBERTY PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (here is why he's not a plagarist... he changed it to PoH from property. Why? Cause not everyone is stoked by owning. It's usually our ability to own; the chase and not the catch. Here is why government is important to us. It is to do all this. So we can do these essential things that you... I... don't think about.
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Jen's bookshelf: nerdcation
I want to start by thanking Mr. Snowden and Mr. Greenwald for their uncompromising dedication to giving the NSA violations air time and transparency.
I wanted to share some of the most important things I have learned from this book bef...
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