Dear Boo,
I think you'll enjoy this cartoon: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-york-cartoon-high-school-schedule.html
Currently, a debate is taking place in "conservative" circles concerning contemporary high school students' failure to learn.
Having taught at Orange High for a full month last spring -- and reflecting on my own high school career at Aquinas Institute from 1960 to 1965-- I think your generation knows gobs more stuff than we did. http://www.aquinasinstitute.com/site/default.aspx?PageID=1
I pass this judgment as an intelligent fellow who ranked 7th in my senior class of 350.
Since contemporary "conservatives" are essentially alarmists, they have, in their modern degeneracy, developed a rhetorical style whereby they "pick a principle" and then determine how to frighten themselves at its presumed abuse.
This epistemological error dispels proportion and perspective, two conjoined characteristics whose loss -- in Aquinas' view -- is the ubiquitous root of sinful behavior.
"Thomas Aquinas On American Conservatives' Continual Commission Of Sin"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
Love
Dman
PS By the way... Here is Wikipedia's University of Toronto page. It will orient your investigation of my alma mater. Perhaps we can visit UT summer.