Perhaps the funniest experience I’ve had in teaching about the Founding Fathers, was at a High School. I had been asked to speak to the senior’s advanced placement government class about The Founding Fathers. Just an hour class. The students were smart and knowledgeable I was assured.

They were pretty much the same as the senior class when I was in high school except that they were all dressed much differently. It seems that the dress code has been pretty much been done away with! But the kids were nice and polite. At least to me.

I started out asking l some general questions, and the answers were sharp and astute. Then I asked what they knew about Dolley Madison. One young lady raised her hand and asked: “didn’t she have something to do with cupcakes?”

The students enjoyed the class. I did too! They had me come back each year thereafter for 3 or 4 years. It was fun for me. High school kids are great. But history needs some work in the school curriculum. Cup cakes?