Our expectations were colored by the fairy stories, I wot.
Ever heard of a civics class concluding? ~

By the way, grils and boys - notice, as you approach voting age, that you are now in a minority - whenever you enter that voting booth.

Expect to remain a minority - still, it's handy to know how things were originally supposed to work. Those were really great ideas, weren't they?

Oh.. and by the way, after you get out of these HS classes?
do read a lot more about the many events glossed over in these sanitized textbooks.

Otherwise you'll go through life not knowing shit about your neighbors' actual behavior, the origins of your surroundings.. and generally - you will be voting for assholes marketing fairy tales to children. These are most often successful, btw. *That's* where you Really live...


(Well, maybe a teacher could get away with that, before moving on. In '06, even with the vulgarisms. Unless AG Gonzales got wind.)