RSMashbaum wrote:
> ... an idea I have advanced before: a shiur based on a series
> of "court cases" can prove interesting to many otherwise
> unmotivated high school students.

R' Arie Folger commented:
> However, while that will turn on students, it won't give them
> solid knowledge they can refer back to. They won't have acquired
> first hand knowledge of primary text (Talmud).

Why do you presume that they'd remain ignorant of Talmud? It seems to 
me that this would depend on how the shiur is structured: If they 
simply look at the case, and how Shulchan Aruch sees it, then you are 
correct. But if they continue beyond that, to learn the rishonim 
which the Shulchan Aruch comes from, and then the gemaras which those 
rishonim quoted, wouldn't that be great?

Akiva Miller