O’Connor’s unlikely venture into the video game world may not have produced a Resident Evil-level blockbuster, but so far it has hooked kids in 12,000 classrooms across the U.S. on a selection of civics-themed games—now played more than 2 million times. The goal: Revive the teaching of civics in American schools to help prepare the next generation of kids to participate as citizens in a democracy.
As O’Connor points out, America’s public schools were founded in part to prepare kids for citizenship, not just college and career. “That was the theory, and schools followed it until recently,” she told Newsweek. “Now our schools aren’t supporting it anymore. And I think that’s dangerous.” (via Sandra Day O’Connor on Her American Civics Video Game – Newsweek)