Our parents pay exorbitant taxes so we can be public-school kids. We have sports and stuff but mainly school is about important civics lessons.

We even get to go on these expensive field trips in nice buses, burning up expensive energy and making a carbon footprint, but it’s okay because we are special and it’s okay to break the rules when you are saving the country. And besides, it’s “education.” And “making a difference.”

This week we learned to hate thoughts. We also learned to hate prayers. We also learned to hate Republicans. Best of all we learned to hate guns.

We also played a game called “activism.” We form ourselves into an angry, bitter, hateful, mob. And then we perform these emotional tantrums in front of the media, and in front of weak, timid, easily-manipulated legislators. Civics is fun. We don’t get in trouble for screaming out hate. We get school credit for it. Our teachers say we get our way every time.