Kids don't like to be seen as being different in school. Some of the high schoolers on this very forum have recently said as much.
Awww...don't make me blush. I stick out like a sore thumb.
I can't believe I'm so old that people don't remember "civics".
Don't reminisce about the good ol' days; we actually do take a required civic course in the 10th grade which explains how the government works and such, and also a crash course in economics.
It should be more than a crash course. And modern civics courses tend to only focus on federal government, when the truth is that local government structures are far, far more important to the average citizen. Kids may graduate with an understanding of how the Senate works (hopefully) and not understand how a local city council can strip you of private property rights with a simple code amendment, or how a school board can impose a Nazi-ish uniform code with absolutely no check or balance.
It is amazing how something as local as a zoning board has far more power over you than any Supreme Court decision on Eminent Domain.
Which leads me to a question I have never found a satisfactory answer to:
If a town adopts a local ordnance saying, "no liquor stores within one mile of a church" and the town has at least one liquor store within any square mile of land. Would this ordinance effectively stop all new churches from being built?
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It is amazing how something as local as a zoning board has far more power over you than any Supreme Court decision on Eminent Domain.
Which leads me to a question I have never found a satisfactory answer to:
If a town adopts a local ordnance saying, "no liquor stores within one mile of a church" and the town has at least one liquor store within any square mile of land. Would this ordinance effectively stop all new churches from being built?