Opinion | If Kids Ran Our Elections

Jul 31 2021 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

At first, I was simply terrified to visit the class. In my day job, I’m an election law professor, but for an hour last year I was an elementary school teacher. That seemed much harder.

My fourth grade daughter had told her teacher that our family dinner conversations often revolved around the contentious 2020 election. So, the teacher sent me an invitation: Would I come discuss constitutional law and voting rights with a group of 9- and 10-year-olds?

Normally, I teach these topics to law...

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