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It's very difficult to teach about anything "controversial" in middle and high school. What's wrong about the FISA vote and Bush's general lawlessness, since Congress has blessed it, makes these things controversial issues. Some teachers will, no doubt, try to use it in their lessons, but many teachers - those who know what's happened - will probably be too fearful. They have 2 branches of government against them, after all.
Imagine, though, if Obama and Congress had not caved. Those kids who Obama has fired up would have taken notice of his stand. They'd have seen in action what they've only heard their teachers lecture about or what they've read in textbooks. They'd have been motivated to think and question and discuss and learn on their own. That's the lost opportunity that infuriates me.
