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Has Sandra Day O’Connor’s Site Just Added A Weird & Insulting Game On Immigration? Or Am I Being Too Sensitive? | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Has Sandra Day O’Connor’s Site Just Added A Weird & Insulting Game On Immigration? Or Am I Being Too Sensitive? | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Has Sandra Day O’Connor’s Site Just Added A Weird & Insulting Game On Immigration? Or Am I Being Too Sensitive?

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has created a website to help students learn about civics issues.

I’ve previously posted about the site, and its games. One of them — Cast Your Vote — is pretty good, and it’s on The Best Websites For Learning About Civic Participation & Citizenship. There are a lot of interactives there, but I think most of them are overly-complicated — even for native English speakers. “Cast Your Vote,” though, puts you in the role of a person at a political debate asking questions and evaluating the