And as long as we are talking about the Constitution, it seems as a good a time as any to bring up homosexuality.
It's pretty easy to see that there is much more acceptance of gay students than there ever was when I was that age. Many high schools now even have gay/straight alliance clubs. My boyfriend was the president of the club at his high school and he tells me that being gay wasn't that big of a deal to anyone. That doesn't sound like the high school I went to.
Anyway, my point is that I'm sure that there were many students that took notice when George Bush proclaimed that there was an immediate need to change the Constitution to ensure that gay people may never have a state recognized marraige or civil union. It is the first time, to my knowledge, that a change to the Constitution has been proposed to exclude a group of people.
I would say that this is one example of how our youth see a disregard for this document from the leader of our nation.