The New York State Education Department Social Studies Frameworks describes “How a Bill Becomes a Law” and teaches us a sanitized view of history and government. From John Adams appointment of “midnight judges” after he had lost the 1800 presidential election to Joanne Freeman’s “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War;” actual battles on the floor of Congress and on and on, from the Founding Fathers to today we have avoided teaching the “cuts and bruises” of day to day politics.
Some of us will retire in tier 6 in 11 years. Actually, 10.5.