[Cadaverous Pallor]

I was very interested in politics in high school. I considered a career in political journalism. I nearly started a debate club. My friends always talked politics, even those that weren't in the highest of classes. I thought that students that weren't up on the issues of the day were idiots, and didn't really make friends with any.

I did take AP US History though, and that was an absolutely life-altering class for me. I give all the credit for that to my teacher, who truly fostered independent thinking. We had a textbook and two other texts that we studied, one liberal sided, one conservative. For every section, we compared and contrasted how each author treated the topic. We questioned all motives and debated everything.

Every student deserves such fantastic teaching, especially in such an important area.

I won't say that I was a standard student with regards to politics, but there were plenty of us around in the early 90's.