WHS froze its normal curriculum for a few days and had teachers lead their classes through interactive lessons which were planned and written by students in SGA.  Sarah Spector, a SGA member who helped plan the foreign language lesson about immigration issues explained, "We had to go meet with the teachers and get them on board and excited about teaching it because we were not going to be there teaching it, so they had to be excited and get involved as well."  She said that during the training, the teachers were very receptive to taking on the new lesson plans and looking forward to teaching them in the classroom. 

Each lesson corresponded to the subject where it was to be taught. For instance, science classes talked about global warming and gym and health classes talked about health care. Nitin Potoarazu, a student who helped plan the health care lesson said, "We felt that it was a pretty important issue because 16 percent of the U.S. does not have health care and that's a lot of people.  In our lesson plan we played dodge ball.  For the first round everyone was able to play and then for the second round, 16 percent of kids who represented people without health care could only play with their hands on their head.  That's a very unfortunate situation they're in so it can help them relate to the 16 percent of Americans who are without [health care]."   The health care lesson also included a clip from an episode of Morgan Spurlock's documentary television show "30 Days" where he lives on minimum wage and cannot afford health care. 

All of the lessons were interactive.  Many included video clips and activities to demonstrate various election issues.  For instance, for a lesson about social security, students were given a job (ranging from doctor to fast food worker), paid accordingly (with Monopoly money) and then asked to pay taxes to the government.  The students who were 'retired' collected social security from the government.   Then, the exercise was repeated as if it were 20 years later, when much more of the population would be retired and the government would have less social security money to go around.  The exercise simulated the impending social security crisis that we will all face as more and more Baby Boomers retire.

Students enjoyed the activities and actively debated the issues, which was exactly what SGA set out to do.  But most of the buzz in the hallways was about the concert.  Students from all over Montgomery County crowded the football field at WHS to listen to local government officials speak about the merits of getting involved and voting and of course to hear the Pat McGee Band and Gym Class Heroes perform live. 

Pat McGee had some advice for students, saying, "If they're not sure about who to vote for or if they even want to vote, they should talk to some of their friends and get on the web.  You should just get involved, it's the American way and it's ridiculous for you not to get out there and vote.  It takes two seconds to go vote.  And when you complain about something, you can say, 'I voted'.  If you don't vote, you can't complain."

And while it's mostly just seniors who will be voting in November's presidential election, the TUNED IN event stressed that you don't need to be of voting age to care or to get involved.  Students of all ages were encouraged to voice their opinions to their elected representatives and to volunteer for causes and issues that they're passionate about.