After emailing my son’s teacher about how I felt about the study guide he distributed about how I disagreed about the use of the word unfair, this was the teacher’s email response. Note the spelling and grammatical errors. lol This is the garbage that our nation’s youth is being fed.
“We talked as a class how mostly the rich received formal education after grade school. Some children did not recieve any education at all until the mid 1800’s, when formal eduation took hold. The reason why I use the term unfair is because the delegates created a representative democracy, yet didn’t include all they were representing. We talked about why they wouldn’t include the genral masses in the convention, and most children agreed that they wouldn’t have included them either because they were not informed or educated. We linked this with the creation of the electoral college because the founding fathers were very leery of letting an uneducated public choose the President. I hope Tim, understood the education piece, I can clear it up in our next discussion too, because maybe some other kids are unclear in it as well.
If you have any other questions, please let me know”
Reading your post with the teacher’s response now... Aside from the errors, the teacher’s explanation doesn’t sound so bad, if she handled the lesson as she described it. (I see you’re in my state, by the way.)
How illiterate for a teacher. Not only can the teacher not construct a reasonable sentence, she(?) doesn’t even have a decent grasp of history.
While the Founding Fathers may not have invited everyone to participate in the Constitutional Convention itself, the documents they drew up DID include everyone.
It’s simply not possible to have everyone participate in everything. They had enough debate and dispute about them anyway. Adding more people and opinions to the mix would not have helped. This is what the concepts of leaders and a representative republic are all about.
This teacher might want to consider that government isn’trun much differently today. Do our representatives ask and consider the opinion of ALL their representatives for direction in voting on laws? I don’t think so. People are leaving NYS and other liberal states because of the failed policies that are being passed over their constituents objections.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Please see post 58 further back up in this thread for free curriculum from the Heritage Foundation.
By the way, discussion usually means responses from more than one party. There have been problems in the past with people who sign up on FR who post articles and NEVER respond to them. That is not considered good form, likely on any internet forum, and that is part of what trolling is.
If you post something and don’t respond to people’s replies to you, that’s not a good way to get a good start. Just for your information.
Welcome to FR.