College students are patriotic

As a 20-year-old college student, I was taken aback by Sen. Allen Christensen's claim that his friend "couldn't find" college students with knowledge of the Constitution, but even more so by his lack of confidence in my generation.

It cannot be assumed, as Sen. Christensen has done, that we do not love our country. I have experienced public education much more recently than Sen. Christensen. I did learn patriotism from my public schools — not from mechanically reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, rather from teachers who taught well and challenged me.

Carrie Gold

Holladay