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Unbelievable: Common Core Problem Asks Kids to Choose Two Amendments to Remove From Bill of Rights
IJReview ^ | 03/31/2014 | Emily Hulsey

Posted on 03/31/2014 1:58:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A mother in Arkansas has expressed concern over her daughter’s recent Common Core school assignment that asked her to remove and replace two of the first ten amendments of the Constitution. The team assignment stated that the Bill of Rights is “outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer.” Here is a copy of the assignment:

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The mother who spoke up said she was particularly troubled by the fact that her daughter’s Sixth Grade History class had received no prior training in civics or how to amend the Constitution, which may lead those children to incorrectly believe that it can be changed by a “special committee” as suggested by the assignment.

“After she brought it home and explained her assignment to me, it made me question exactly what she was being taught. Where I can see a class using critical thinking skills to modernize the words, as to help them better understand the Amendments, giving an assignment to remove two then add two with little explanation as to why is upsetting,” she said.

We know that teaching our children false principles – particularly those pertaining to Americans’ basic rights – is dangerous because it can make them less likely to realize and speak up when those rights are being violated in the future. If the Common Core curriculum promotes some of those false principles (whether purposefully or not), it is time to make some big changes – before it’s too late.

One Kid’s Unexpected Answer to a Homework Problem is Freaking Awesome


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To: nurees

I do not support Common Core and believe it to be yet another liberal pedagogical fashion doomed to failure. But, making things up in order to solicit support from those ignorant about what is really going on doesn’t strike me as the way to go.


61 posted on 03/31/2014 4:47:39 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: RIghtwardHo

You realize you’re equating the mental maturity of law students with sixth graders, right, counselor?

Please note, I’m not disagreeing.


62 posted on 03/31/2014 5:17:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: muir_redwoods

Don’t forget to look among the emanations, too.


63 posted on 03/31/2014 5:24:31 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I read FR every day, so I know about all these terrible things going on in those OTHER public schools. Thankfully, the schools that my kids go to are WONDERFUL and would NEVER think of pulling a stunt like that. It’s only those OTHER SCHOOLS that have the problems.

(how FReepers rationalize sending their kids to public schools)


64 posted on 03/31/2014 5:28:31 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

“Omit two and add two amendments to the Bill of Rights”
That’s easy. The BOR is retained, but 16th and 17th are omitted.
The new ones are balanced budget amendment, and congressional term limits.
All via article V.
But, I’d bet, for this assignment I’d get an “F”.


65 posted on 03/31/2014 5:31:04 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: grumpygresh

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

So, the 16th and 17th amendment DO NOT COUNT.


66 posted on 03/31/2014 5:35:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: SeekAndFind

Remove Communist Core from your life.

live - free - republic


67 posted on 03/31/2014 5:41:47 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: unixfox; grumpygresh; DTogo; Sirius Lee

Unfortunately, The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

So, the 14th, 16th and 17th amendment DO NOT COUNT for this assignment.


68 posted on 03/31/2014 5:42:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: SeekAndFind
The government of the United States is currently revisiting the Bill of Rights.

Whoever wrote that seem oblivious (or pretends to be) when dealing with sixth grade students(!) that the statement is not fact but fantasy; "let's pretend..." would be an honest introductory phrase were it not for the more egregious reality that if the real world politicians, from the president, and both houses of congress on down either are more ignorant functionally than sixth graders, or pretend to be while pushing arbitrary tyranny on the citizens.

Aside from that it is stupidity or ignorance to imply or suggest to children that changing the ruling documents of a 200-year-old Constitutional Republic requires no more thought and reflection that an exercise by 11-year-olds.

If my child brought home that assignment, I would sue the teacher personally, the Principal, personally, and the School District collectively for child abuse.
And demand damages for the utter waste of educational tax funds.

69 posted on 03/31/2014 5:53:38 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: publius911
Whoever wrote that seem oblivious (or pretends to be) when dealing with sixth grade students(!)

Don't worry. I'm certain that no sixth grader has ever seen this, unless they read Free Republic. This is more bogus than an honest Democrat.

70 posted on 03/31/2014 6:10:04 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: SeekAndFind

Another reason to homeschool!


71 posted on 03/31/2014 6:29:52 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ooo I want to play.
Let’s replace the 27th and replace it with:
The combined revenue a congressman makes cannot exceed the net salary of an American worker.
So, if they want pay raises, they can find another job or pass some laws that actually help the people.:P


72 posted on 03/31/2014 6:33:02 PM PDT by NullPointerException
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To: Amendment10; All
It would be interesting to know who inspired the question. Probably a Democrat

Unrepentant domestic terrorist and bomber William Ayers is all over the educations system in this country now.

Here's a bit about what is going on, so it's no surprise that Common Core is rampant in schools:

Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum



Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:

  • A national curriculum called Common Core
  • Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats
  • A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts
  • An effective federal tracking of all students
  • The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school

Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.

When these dangerous initiatives are implemented, there will be no escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving to a good suburb, or by home schooling, or by enrolling your children in private schools.

How was it that 48 governors entered Race-to-the-Top without knowing outcomes?

It was one of the many “crises” exploited by the Obama administration. While the public was focused on a series of radical moves coming in rapid-fire succession, like the health care bill and proposed trials and imprisonment of 9/11 terrorists on domestic soil, governors, worried about keeping school doors open, signed on. Many politicians and pundits praised Obama on this singular issue, repeating the official rhetoric about raising standards.

It stands to reason, though, that education policies would be consistent with Obama’s agenda. After all, one of his most controversial associations, highlighted during the 2008 presidential campaign, was with an education professor, Bill Ayers. As a terrorist, he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, had dedicated their Prairie Fire Manifesto to Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. It was for this reason that Kennedy’s son, Christopher Kennedy, chairman of the University of Illinois board of trustees, voted against bestowing “professor emeritus” status on Ayers after he retired. “I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,” he said.

THE OBAMA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: WHERE DID BILL AYERS GO?

Back then, the former bomber and co-founder of the communist terrorist Weather Underground organization was Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The two had worked together closely from the year Ayers hosted a political launch party for Obama, in 1995, to 2002. At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, “the brainchild of Bill Ayers,” they funneled more that $100 million to radical groups like ACORN and Gamaliel, which used the funds to promote radical education.[i] This initiative was also promoted by Arne Duncan, now Secretary of Education. Also as board members of the Woods Fund, Ayers and Obama channeled money to ACORN and the Midwest Academy.[ii]

There is a lot more, click the link in the title to get further involved in seeing how they are destroying America.

People in Hitler's Germany complained to him about his agenda and tried to get him to stop and change direction.

He smiled and said "We already have the children."

That is what is happening here.

73 posted on 03/31/2014 6:42:20 PM PDT by Syncro (So? -Andrew Breitbart [1969-2012] RIP King of The New Media)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark.


74 posted on 03/31/2014 7:03:15 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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A better assignment would have involved removing all but two.


75 posted on 03/31/2014 7:13:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

This sounds like a variation on the school thought exercise “if you were to lose one of your senses, which one would you choose: sight, hearing, etc.” or in addition to losing sight or hearing, the use of one’s legs.


76 posted on 03/31/2014 7:15:55 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: centurion316

“I’m starting to think that this whole thing is bogus. I can’t imagine that Common Core would ask a question that would require actual thought and demand a coherent response.”


You should read up on common core. It IS insidious. A total wolf in sheep’s clothing. Our children, will most assuredly become robots if this agenda is not stopped.


77 posted on 03/31/2014 8:21:14 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: ourworldawry
You should read up on common core. It IS insidious. A total wolf in sheep’s clothing. Our children, will most assuredly become robots if this agenda is not stopped.

When did I say anything in support of Common Core? Never, and you never will hear it from me. I said that this particular story is bogus. I don't believe that this assignment is from a common core curriculum and I don't believe that it was ever in a classroom. Someone made this up in order to stir people up. Not necessary in my case and certainly not the way to stop what is going on in the classroom.

78 posted on 03/31/2014 8:28:48 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Steve_Seattle; Publius Valerius

I see where PV is taking as the thought exercise that it is. Hopefully some of the kids will give a good explanation of why ALL of those rights are good. My take on it would be that they are God Given - “natural law” type rights.

BTW - just a while ago on FR there was a thread about cops taking over neighbor’s houses around some crazy guy’s house. Kicking the people out, trashing things as they moved furniture around for cover, etc. to keep an eye on the guy and to capture him. A short-term “quartering” - but quartering none-the-less.


79 posted on 03/31/2014 8:38:22 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: SeekAndFind

terrible assignment.

But there is one amendment that IMO should be repealed, and that’s amendment 16.


80 posted on 03/31/2014 9:47:56 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Obama-worst president in American History)
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