Debating School-continued

The last two weeks of my life have pertained to my last discussion in an unusual way. I have been a student of a charter school. But even here the way of teaching has been very much the same as all other schools. In my observation from being here the only thing significant about it is that more classes involving the arts are available, it is rather low-key on the political issues as well. Like every school, it says the pledge every morning, but other than that and a speaker on Martin Luther King Jr. Day you hardly hear of anything political. One thing different, however, is History Day, this does allow students to really research and think about significant topics in history, and the 'project' that goes with it enables them to be active or see more of what it was about.
This is my first year participating in History Day but I really like this years topic, Debate. This particular theme helps students understand some of the issues that have happened, and could still be happening, today. It forces them to analyze both sides of what happened and come up with there own conclusion of who was in the right. When students start to think for themselves in issues of the world that will help in shaping the government (as I started to mention in the last post)
This one event, in select schools, does not change the whole of public school flaws, however. The majority of America still does not understand some of the core events of how and why the world works the way it does. Yet, they still try to make their own opinions and vote for whomever they believe is right for helping America survive. I believe that if the public schools started finding systems that applied to all students, America would see a difference in our way of thinking about the world.