Imalawman wrote:Weston White wrote:Rather instead they, including SCOTUS have remained looking away, as if to quietly utter to us each individually… We know, we know… we have failed you all and it is just too damned bad for each and every one of you.
I think that this is a perfect example of how modern education has turned into one big "teach to the test" exercise. Too many people are not exposed to any meaningful study of our country's system of government and how it works; and all too often when they do it consists of little more than a collection of sound bites, many of which are misleading if not flat-out wrong.
We are in bad need of a national movement to create a series of full-year courses, on the American political system, and make them a mandatory part of school curricula. We can allow for differing viewpoints, of course; but every child should be able, when he or she reaches adulthood, to have a working knowledge of our political and legal institutions.
I say this because, if Weston White had a genuine knowledge of how the Supreme Court operates and how it selects its cases for review, he might understand that you have to make a basic showing that your case is at least plausible before the Court will consent to hear it, and that when the Court declines to do so it means that you just didn't have the horses to run the fact.
Then again, it's Weston White; so he might not....
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture." -- Pastor Ray Mummert, Dover, PA, during an attempt to introduce creationism -- er, "intelligent design", into the Dover Public Schools