They're just setting kids up with realistic expectations of their future
I remember having a mock election when I was in kindergarten, I think? But I just want to know what five year olds were voting for Ross Perot.
When I was a kid, I saw a 30-minute infomercial biography for Ross Perot on TV. My kid brain thought he was going to win after seeing that.
Lmfao at americans indoctrinating their kids to believe they have a democracy, also saluting the flag, and being afraid of shooters. The american school experience must feel like jail
That's actually extremely common, because the architectural requirements of a prison are pretty similar to those of a school. Secure building, supports reasonable amounts of traffic between rooms, supports lots of traffic to cafeteria, gym, etc. It's logical that the same people would design them, and so they often do.
Aramark does the food for most of the colleges in my college town. Worked a kitchen for one, it was actually a really good union gig with free meals and since students weren't there from April til September I was a seasonal worker so I could just go on EI and not work for the summer. Vile company but the job kinda rules
My childhood school got completely remodeled and it's so fenced in it looks like a prison. I remember being a kid and just walking onto the field during the weekends, but those days are over,
The words "our democracy" are a regular feature in civics-related classes
Being afraid of shooters is probably a good call. If I was around a shooter I would be afraid of getting shot by the shooter
I remember doing this in the 2000 election when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, lived in a very conservative suburb, but our class of little kids voted for Gore over Bush after being given a very simple "objective" list of the candidates platform/campaign talking points. I remember going home and telling my dad that I voted for Gore like "because he cares about the trees and keeping the environment clean" or something like that, and my dad, a lifelong Republican, was like "No he doesn't, he just pretends to care about that, everything he says is a lie, just like everything Clinton said was a lie. Clinton went on TV and lied right in the face of all Americans, liberals are all like that, you can't believe a single word that comes out of their mouths". And now, looking back on it, it's somewhat true (though not the way he meant it) but holy shit I feel like little kids naturally have some amount of empathy and compassion that needs to be beaten out of them via indoctrination to produce conservative voters.
damn i remember my 2008 mock election and finding out all my friends were conservatives, good times. hope yours goes better.
Not voting Matt in
:LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: :LIB: !!!!! :p
i was the campaign manager for Kerry in our mock election and i hated every minute of it
Yea I got my mock election coming up too, luckily I got ranked choice voting so I can put howie and la riva down
