SuperSAC Meeting

talk about voting, elections and democracy

Thank you all for agreeing to participate in Superintendent Raquel Reedy’s Student Advisory Council meeting Thursday. Every high school principal in the district has the opportunity at the start of each school year to nominate two students (juniors, seniors or both) to serve on SuperSAC. Once a month the teens have lunch with the superintendent to discuss issues of their choice. It surprised us a little to learn almost every student in the group desires to explore their role in politics today, the role schools play in educating them in civics and the challenge of engagement with civility.

superpac.pdf

The importance of civics lesson

icivic.org

History of voting!

Polling Place Chaos Across the Nation on Election Day

Ten Takeaways From the 2018 Midterm Elections

1. Southern Democrats Running for Governor Come up Short

2. A House surprise in Oklahoma

Democrat Kendra Horn defeated Republican Rep. Steve Russell.

3. Kind of Surprising in Texas’ Seventh Congressional District and New York’s 11th

4. Senate Democrats stumble on Trump turf

5. Cruz v. Beto

6. A Giant Slayer Goes Down

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former covert CIA officer, defeated GOP Rep. Dave Brat

7. Democrats Run Through the Suburbs

8. Democrats Flip Several Governors’ Mansions in Midwest

Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin

9. No Significant Interference in Election Detected

10. Historic Muslim Victories Swell Women-Win Column

Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American, will represent Michigan, and Ilhan Omar, once a Somali refugee in Kenya

Social Contract - an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.

Nations w/ Representative Democracy

as of Nov 3, 2018

A memo entitled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” buried in the the Nixon library details a plan between Ailes and the White House to bring pro-administration stories to television networks around the country. It reads: “Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”

The documents show Ailes to be an engaged, brilliant, and often catty adviser with an obsessive, almost evangelical focus on the power of television to manipulate people for political purposes.