Law-related education.

• Author: Logue, Thomas W.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

The key to making civic education, including law-related education, really work is to make it part of the curriculum taught by professional teachers. For this reason, the most important article in the November 2006 special issue regarding law-related education was one the written by John Doyle and Stephen C. Shenkmen describing how law-related education can be included in the curriculum. I have personally seen the magic of John Doyle's programs in generating knowledge and excitement in high school students.

To make civic education really happen, the Bar must go beyond merely offering guest speakers or lawyer liaisons. Frankly, the single best thing the Bar could do would be to to lobby for adequate funding and inclusion in the curriculum of the programs like those that John and Stephen list.

Finally, let me say that we are extremely lucky to have a chief justice who has made civic education one of his priorities.

Thomas W. Logue, Miami

Although the subject article ("The American Voter," November 2006) contains important data about who is and who is not voting, it goes over board, into the depths of non sequitur, in the paragraph titled "Reasons for Not Voting." Specifically, that paragraph begins by identifying the number of millions who did register to vote in 2004 (142), then proceeds to catalogue the percentages of...