<p>Quite a lot of the kids in Southern Cal. have started to pick up on politics, of course they are in the process of learning how it all works, but prob 75% of the kids know enough to get by in a discussion. Another surprising thing, a lot of people were dissapoionted by Romney, and many favor Clinton over Obama.
A lot of this is beacuse many seniors this year are taking AP Government, but then again, there seems to be more soph/juniors into the political scene.</p>
<p>I am president of the one political club, and the people in the club (about 20) are the only ones in the school who are really active in politics. Outside of us, a fairly high percentage of the "AP kids" are at least interested, probably about 50%. It has gotten better this year since the political club has launched a school-wide voter registration and activism campaign.</p>
<p>Though, no matter what we do, everyone in less than "Honors" is hopelessly apathetic. It's kind of odd, how distinct the lines are.</p>
<p>I bought a fake I.D. solely for the purpose of voting.</p>
<p>Pretty much everyone. The middle school kids care, for God's sake, and the seniors are just going crazy. A good friend of mine is Obama's National High School Director, or something like that, lol.</p>
<p>I walked through the sophmore and freshman hallways the Monday after the Superbowl and more kids were talking about Super Tuesday than about the Giants. And we're in New York.</p>
<p>a few kids pay attention, but most don't. Then again this is Alaska, a place where our vote almost doesn't count (for the presidential election). What's kind-of sad is that the teachers don't know their politics either, even if they are teaching a current events class. My one teacher put on the board that Bill Richardson was a republican, and spelled his name "Ricardon." Ugh.. as reading the news/keeping up to date about politics is one of my hobbies, this just makes me cringe every time I see it, still up on the board lying there incorrectly.</p>
<p>Kids talk about the upcoming elections and generally politics in most of my classes. Lots of people also contribute political articles to the school newspaper. So my guess is that the majority of kids in my school are pretty aware of politics.</p>
<p>Hey Teenage_cliche, are you refering to Harris Mercer? He's the National Coordinator for High School Student's for Obama and goes to like Hunter High School or something in NYC. He's one of my coworkers in the campaign - I'm one of Obama's High School State Directors as well.</p>
<p>Oh P.S., if any of you are head of or are part of a High School Democrats club that has lost contact with or hasn't registered formally with the High School Democrats of America, contact us by our website at highschool.yda.org! [I'm part of the Executive Board there]</p>
<p>With 15,000 High School Democrats nationwide, we are going to own the Republicans come November =).</p>
<p>Proportionally, very few students care. But there are those who do, the CSPAN election bus came to our school, and there was certainly interest.</p>
<p>At my school, if you're not on the debate team, and have to know about politics, then you don't know anything about politics. We have a lot of political discussions in my history class, and most of the students have no idea about anything political. And if they have something to say, it's the generic comment, "Bush sucks" that they've heard from everyone. This is more related to foreign affairs than politics, but last year my Human Rights Club had a bake sale with proceeds going toward ending genocide in Darfur, and most of the people who came up to buy stuff asked, "What's a Darfur?" I think it's really really sad that people don't know about things that are so important.</p>
<p>I'd say about 20% know whats going on in my school.</p>
<p>The rest of the school just goes, "I don't effing care, I just don't want that ***** Hillary".</p>
<p>Ohhh, hate my school.</p>
<p>Too many people at my school are fanatical supporters of Obama. And too many people think that saying Clinton's name is tantamount to blasphemy.</p>
<p>The sheep-like nature of my classmates makes me gravely want to reconsider the 26th amendment. I live in the People's Democratic Republic of Montgomery County, so the bulk of these drones extol the virutes of the Obamanation or, if they're an Evangelical, the Huckster. The majority of them speak in a sort of newspeak/idiotspeak to each other about politics and more emotionally conected to their candidates then they are intellectually. </p>
<p>Discussions of political issues usually resemble beauty pagents or high school elections more than the serious event they are. People in my class know that I was the most ardent supporter of Rudy Giuliani for President and had made my intentions well known for the last year that I was not only voting for him, but volunteering for him as well. Well, when he announced that he was leaving the race, people asked me how I could be so wrong in my selection. Someone actually told me how stupid I must feel to support someone who couldn't win. Now, he's telling me how dumb it is to support unpopular candidtes. I'm an atheistic/libertarian/neoconservative; I couldn't be more marginalized (even in my own party) if I tried. Popularity has never been a concern of mine. I hope (for the sake of our nation) the bulk of my classmates forget to vote.</p>
<p>Spice girls concert? whaaat?
Most of my school really doesn't care, but my U.S. Government (H) class is really involved I think. A lot of kids are involved in the Obama campaign, and many went to the Caucuses (we're in Nevada).
My teacher asked how many people had watched the news on Super Tuesday and almost everyone's hand went up. And we watch the news every morning and discuss it. So yeah, I really like my Government class actually.</p>
<p>I hope the bulk of your classmates do vote. Obama needs all of em he can get to make as big of a landslide as possible</p>
<p>A lot of my friends went out to vote in the primary for Obama =)</p>
<p>At my boys' school, the politically aware kids are really having fun with Rasmussen</a> Markets . It is spilling over to some of the kids who otherwise wouldn't care. One of my guys is going to have fun today; he's moved ahead of his government teacher.</p>
<p>So for the democrats, people can choose</p>
<p>A) A female for president
B) An African American for president</p>
<p>I wonder how this will turn out.</p>
<p>My school is the Obama/Ron Paul capital of the world.</p>
<p>nearly everyone is strangely active and really knows about the issues.</p>
<p>then again, a graduating class consists of 40 girls who have known each other since they were in diapers.</p>
<p>almost no one is involved or seems to care about politics at my school. we have a debate team but exceot for me, no one on that team even cares. its very annoying at times, i mean doesn't anyone care about the country's future??</p>
<p>Same here everyone wants Obama to win and for Hillary to die and yet they don't know anything of the two. I am an Obama supporter but c'mon, know what your talking about before you make a conclusion.</p>