Posted on 03/31/2014 1:58:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
OK, I got 1. Replace the 17th with one that states if a teacher/school system/administrator attempts to teach common core or any other standards based education they will be hung by their toes next to the bill or rights.
The smart kids would be directed to repeal the 16th and 17th immediately.
The teachers heads would be exploding.
Make #2 crystal clear: the right of the people to bear arms of any type shall not be infringed. No permits or fees are required to privately or publicly own, possess or display arms.
Do you say that about 3 because you don't think it can lead to great abuse to provide room and board to soldiers during peacetime? That's why our Founders put it there and it has been effective in protecting homes from that intrusion for over two centuries.
Countries without a Second Amendment might become convinced that they need to sometimes quarter soldiers in private homes. Those who are armed fear the absence of a strong central military much less. They are prepared to organize themselves in Militias and to protect their communities without government help.
Teaching kids who can barely read or write (or wipe their noses or asses, for that matter) to remove two “amendments” (a word 90% of 6th graders wouldn’t know) from a Constitution they cannot possibly understand... ‘2’ guesses which Amendment they want the kids to remove?
2 + 2 = 4
The whole idea that education needs to be dictated from DC is bizarro
They did not learn the basics before moving to analyzing, the same thing in all the subjects . The kids will not understand anything if they graduate from this
This kid deserves an A+. Seriously.
Law school. Where the students had learned the basics and knew the subject. These kids haven’t learned basic civics and are being indoctrinated
That is basically where it is going
A challenge, but probably the politically correct answer and the one that will give you highest marks is the First and the Tenth.
I’d love to see their reaction to a suggestion that the kids also decide which two enumerated powers they’d remove from Article I, Sec 8.
I say #3 because the exercise is to remove two of the first 10. This isn’t an easy task, but we have to choose. My thinking is that of those 10, there has never been a case on #3, and as far as I know, it’s never happened since the government has been adopted. So if we have to remove some, #3 seems like a pretty good candidate to me.
#7 is my second choice because, again, we are dealing with the lesser of evils here. I tend to think jury trials in civil cases are overrated, and the elimination of them might actually help to lessen some of the large verdicts that we’ve seen in the past few decades. OTOH, it gives even more power to life-tenure federal judges, but that risk seems to me like the least bad risk compared to removing some of the other amendments.
Also, for purposes of this exercise, I’ve interpreted the assignment to remove an entire amendment—not just a clause.
Omit two: an easy choice for today’s liberal-educated kids - the Second Amendment, because guns are “scary”; and the Tenth Amendment, because “states rights” is simple code for racism and all other evil things, like gun rights and bans on gay marriage.
Why not ask the little beggars to think about the Constitution? The Founders provided a mechanism for its amendment and that is often discussed on FR.
I'm not in favor of Common Core because I don't like federal educational standards, but let's not go crazy about it.
There isn’t even a formal CC for social studies yet. Ohio is still usi state standards. Only math and language arts are formally CC.
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