What are your thoughts on what is going on in public schools...namely Blackfoot, Idaho at the moment?

Many educational designs change with the economic standards of an area. The Unites States have always had an overall low standard when it comes to education. However, when the government is doing well, the schools do somewhat better.

The way the country is ran trickles all the way down. The industry in your area may not be booming. "United States Micropolitan Statistical Areas (µSA, where the initial Greek letter mu represents "micro-"), as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, are urban areas in the United States based around a core city or town with a population of 10,000 to 49,999.1 The micropolitan area designation was created in 2003.

Like the better-known metropolitan area, a micropolitan area is a geographic entity used for statistical purposes based on counties and county-equivalents 1. The OMB has identified 577 such areas in the nation. The term "micropolitan" was created by author G.

Scott Thomas for a 1989 article in American Demographics magazine, and was expanded in his 1990 book, The Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities.2 It gained currency in the 1990s to describe growing population centers in the United States that are removed from larger cities, in some cases by 100 miles (160 km) or more. Lower land and labor costs have led some micropolitan areas to develop many housing subdivisions and suburban cultures similar to those found in larger metropolitan areas. Micropolitan cities do not have the economic or political importance of large cities, but are nevertheless significant centers of population and production, drawing workers and shoppers from a wide local area.

Because the designation is based on the core town's population and not on that of the whole area, some micropolitan areas are actually larger than some metropolitan areas. The largest of the areas, the one whose core city is Torrington, Connecticut, had a population in excess of 180,000 in 2000; Torrington's population in that year's census was only 35,202. Many such areas have dynamic rates of growth; however, all micropolitan areas combined account for about 10% of the population." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_micropolitan_area.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.