O'CONNOR: Well, it's pleasant afterwards but (LAUGHTER) not during the process. STEPHANOPOULOS: Unpleasant even when you're confirmed? It's just something you have to go through. And I don't care who you are, it's a difficult, unpleasant experience for the nominee. But just, she'll have to go through the process of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. STEPHANOPOULOS: What advice do you have for Elena Kagan now as she heads into all this? But I was afraid, I had so much trouble getting work in the first place, I thought with five years off, it would be much more difficult. O'CONNOR: Well, I didn't know if I could even get another job as a lawyer when I took the five years. legal work force today, do you, could you imagine you could make it to the court? STEPHANOPOULOS: - out of it the work force, the. STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you took five years. And I didn't have a substitute with three little kids. O'CONNOR: I did at one point, because my babysitter moved to California, and that was a disaster. You spent five years working in the home, raising your family. And they were comparing it to what Justice Sotomayor, perhaps what Elena Kagan will go through. what you were going through when you first started in the law. STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, I was reading an article about. That's a lot better than what it was, 20-some percent. O'CONNOR: Well, I don't know, but it's a third. kind of a geometric progression? Three over two? And we were all, I like to say, fungible justices. And the minute we got a second woman, that stopped. STEPHANOPOULOS: Here's how the woman voted. The court would've done something and then they'd have a little side comment about. O'CONNOR: It made such a difference, because until that time, the media, that includes you, focused on what the one woman justice did. STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, you often said that one of your happiest days on the court was when Justice Ginsburg. STEPHANOPOULOS: - at a point where, perhaps, by October there will be three women on the Supreme Court. STEPHANOPOULOS: It seems like it, and now we're. O'CONNOR: Thank goodness we've got over that. STEPHANOPOULOS: And now we're at a point. But that was at a time in the middle of the last century when women weren't hired as lawyers. You graduated the top of your class in law school and can't get a job. They must have thought this is in another universe. STEPHANOPOULOS: It was interesting watching you talk to the kids about your start as a lawyer. STEPHANOPOULOS: And you're coming out to schools like this and talking about it and promoting it and trying to spread the word? the way I'm trying to deal with it is to try to find a chairperson or persons in every state that will take the responsibility of contacting all the schools and making sure they know about it and encourage them to use it. And the teachers love it, because it does the work for them. STEPHANOPOULOS: But you're giving this game away. There's no one person or entity you can go to in any state who can say, "Here, use this." You have your school board, and your school superintendent, and it's just a big bureaucracy.
What they tend to do is have separate school districts, hundreds of them, in every state. talk about a bureaucracy in government, it's the way schools are organized in every state. STEPHANOPOULOS: So why isn't it in every classroom? And the kids come back with great, "Oh, this is cool." "This is neat." "It's. So we've tracked that and made these games fun. That's what they often use their the computers for, is to play games. And if you make it fun, and they love video games. STEPHANOPOULOS: So if you reach them where they live, they really do absorb the information. And the students go up 20 percent in their knowledge by playing those games. STEPHANOPOULOS: I love that game, "Do I Have a Right?" And they don't even know they're learning. Now, if we can capture just part of that time, a little bit of it, to get 'em in front of a computer screen to play these games, they're going to learn. It's more than they spend in school, it's more than they spend with parents. STEPHANOPOULOS: And they'd be more if you let them.
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Now here's the reason: We know also from the Annenberg polls that youngsters in middle school level - sixth, seventh, eighth grade - spend, on the average, 40 hours a week in front of a screen, whether it's TV or. A new way through games on the website that the young people will find so entertaining that they'll play it and learn.
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