Formulating Last Seminar!

Cameron M -

Hi everyone,

We are getting to the final stretch—hope all of your projects are going well! I am very excited to see your final products. As we get close to the end, I have one more seminar planned. Given that the current political landscape is a little (VERY) contentious right now, navigating which topic to pick for our last class discussion has certainly been a struggle. While I am not avoiding highly debated topics, I try to shy away from issues that have strong personal/emotive bearing on an individual, which many current political topics do.

However, after evaluation, despite this topic severely impacting families in our community and beyond, I think it is necessary to discuss. So! The following question will be up for discussion next week: To what extent should the President have unilateral authority to impose tariffs, and are they helpful to the U.S. economy? As this is a VERY loaded question, we will have students take on roles of Congress (measuring their ability to challenge the actions of the President), the Supreme Court (are these actions Constitutional?), CEO of U.S. company with U.S. manufactured goods, CEO of U.S. company with goods manufactured abroad, a middle class citizen, and a trade analyst. 

These seminars will be structured in a similar way as the ones in the past and will be the last in our series!

After that, data, data, data! 

Wishing you all well,

Cameron

 

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    collin_h
    Hey Cameron, that is definitely a very relevant question to the current political landscape! To me another interesting question is if congressmen/women should have the ability to invest in the market while they are in term or if their 45-day lull before they release their trades should be reduced. A good majority of them have returns that make Warren Buffett look like an amateur investor.
    April 12, 2025 at 10:33 am - Reply
    shaheer_r
    Hey Cameron! Love how you’re incorporating real-world complexity into your seminar—this topic is super relevant and nuanced. How do you plan to guide the discussion if the debate gets especially heated or personal?
    April 13, 2025 at 12:32 pm - Reply
    aswita_k
    Hey Cameron, with this discussion do you think you’ll still see smiliar trends with the classrooms and have the same amount of polarization between the students?
    April 14, 2025 at 8:33 am - Reply

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