and purchase of alaska

DAMN FEDERALISTS

Its not my FAULT

the senate blocked my amendments !

but at least we got Montana

Question that's really a poll:

Do schools in your local area read a book on due process like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Scarlet Letter?

only a few classes and only the honors ones

so you need to be an honour student to be taught about due process?

this explains a lot lol

To Kill a Mockingbird was pretty standard, from what I know.

To Kill A Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter were pretty standard, but the curricula have been shifting and it's no longer a given people will read any particular book. Just as it has become standard to use *A People's History* as the standard History textbook, I got a hunch a number of school districts have removed these books from the curricula for more contemporaneous and politically-oriented flair.

50 years ago, everyone was required to read *The Federalist Papers,* Now you can't even find humanities college graduates who have read any of them.

And colleges will discipline people for handing out copies of the constitution.

That said, I don't have any data personally on what is being taught at local primary schools.

I've never read either but I did watch *Easy A* with Emma Stone a couple of years ago

@pratel my school required it. I believe that my son's school he will go to later requires it as well

But I'm trying to move him into the GT courses now in elementary school

So I dunno if it changes anything

"it" being which book?

The two you mentioned

To kill a mockingbird and scarlet letter

Is this a red district/state or blue?

Blue

But we have a red governor. Flips back and forth

Maryland is a bit of a mixture. It's only solidly blue for presidential elections

And maybe senatorial ones

It's not like most blue places

Imo

MD always seemed pretty Blue to me. I went to DMV and felt completely out of place in MD. But I'll bite.

I've just lived here my whole life

Ironically, felt much more in place in PA.

Yeah pa is way more blue than here

It probably helped I was in western PA.

Yeah

But Philly didn't seem as blue as MD to me.

But it would have also been the DC side of MD too.

Where did you go?

I compared it to VA.

In md

Around DC.

Oh well yeah. That's blue af

When you go pretty much anywhere else it gets pretty red