Quote Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep View Post
We manage, in my English class, to have mostly non political debates. But we mostly agree on things, and there isn't much we could argue. And the teacher is pretty good about the "teenagers, be calm" thing. (There is that one kid who wont shuttup, naturally.)

'Oh M Gee, Jenna went out with CRAIG? Like, ew?' That's a AP LIT discussion? EXPLAIN, MY FRIEND!

Well, I think the teacher noticed that a period of teenage girl-gossip is not effective discussion, and decided that a political argument focused on women issues is better than a struggle to not cross the line into politics.
Nah. It's just that our first period class (counting the teacher) has nine people in one party and one person in the other. He didn't want the one girl to get crushed.