What kind of politics would you have the children learn? Anything beyond the basics and it sounds to me like we're talking sex-ed with an emphasis on technique rather than biology or health issues.

We've seen the effects of too many totalitarian regimes to blindly turn over political ideology to the state. The native 'boarding' schools are only the most obvious example of how education has been unscrupulously used in Canada for political ends - attempting to indoctrinate children and destroy social and cultural bonds.

Unfortunately, the ones with that spark who might resist have been systematically medicated into a zombie-like submission in our current school system.

So, again, specifically - what should our Children learn beyond the structure and mechanics of government and their individual legal rights, as shaky as both are these days?