CHARTER: A valuable day in court
Your article on the Charter School AP Class students attending the Idaho Supreme Court hearing Sept. 18 is important and timely.
I had the pleasure of meeting Sandy Midgley and some of her students when I was exiting the hearing of my own case before the court that morning. As a college educator of over 30 years, I treasured the chance to speak to the students about the privilege they had to see our judicial process at the highest level. We briefly discussed that the court’s setting is formal, and that the legal dialogue can at times be dry. I urged the students to look beneath the attorneys’ formal words and to perceive how the conflict underlying the legal arguments can be very real and that participants’ feelings can be very intense.
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