I'd sure like to see how her teacher reacts to that assessment of the two families! Fly on the wall time. laugh

DS had a page of definitions to do for Social Studies, and one of them (and the lack of another) made me say to myself, "it's gonna be an interesting year!"

Democracy, now, is apparently "government in which power is held by the people and exercised either directly or through representation usually determined by elections."

Republics, now, apparently do not exist at all. Which, I suppose, looking at our country today, should not come as a surprise to me.

It's funny because I spent my senior year government class getting the same question wrong on every test because my teacher insisted on a similar incorrect definition and wanted it written on every test, along with the preamble to the Constitution. I wrote "Mr. L's definition of democracy: ..." and "True definition of democracy: ... " and he didn't like that, for some reason. smile

Kid's only in 7th grade. This could take a while.