Posted on 04/09/2013 7:07:53 AM PDT by massmike
The father of a Connecticut child is furious after discovering that his son’s school is teaching students that Americans don’t have a Second Amendment right to bear arms.
“I am appalled,” said Steven Boibeaux, of Bristol. “It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids.”
Boibeaux’s son is an eighth grader at Northeast Middle School. On Monday his social studies teacher gave students a worksheet titled, ‘The Second Amendment Today.’
“The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” the worksheet states. “The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional.
The worksheet, published by Instructional Fair, goes on to say that the Second Amendment is not incorporated against the states.
“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads. “So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws.”
According to the document, the Second Amendment “only provides the right of a state to keep an armed National Guard.”
His son’s teacher also told the students that the Constitution is a “living document.” As noted in the worksheet provided to students – that means “the interpretation changes to meet the needs of the times.”
“The judges and courts of each generation provide the interpretation of the document,” the worksheet states.
School officials did not return calls seeking comment.
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If none of the Constitutional protections are guaranteed then we are all SLAVES to the State.
We seems to have been alienated from our inalienable rights.
Now I suspect the teacher is pretty pleased about it, whereas I am depressed and angry. But the point is: the teacher has a point.
My 9th grader’s science teacher is still showing Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth.”
We butted heads six years ago when my 21 year old was showing this movie in his classroom.
Is there a right to speech? Can the government require you to get a speech licence and ban certain types of speech?
Our public schools are in such sad shape. The teachers are clueless. The Bill of Rights was written for the people not the government. The Founding Fathers couldn’t shive a git if the state had a National Guard. Teachers on drugs.
“It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids.”
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Bingo. That is exactly what they are doing.
And we all just sit on the sideline, complaining.
My 9th grader’s science teacher is still showing Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth.”
We butted heads six years ago when my NOW 21 year old was in his classroom.
In the article it said:
FRegards,
PrairieDawg
I was at a friend’s house during the 2000 presidential campaign and my friend’s 8 year old came home and told her dad that he should vote for Al Gore because George Bush would fire all the teachers.
My friend went ballistic.
Sounds like this guy is a graduate of the failed education system and can’t read. He should have someone actually read at least the second amendment to him.
10: liberals are slime
20: public schools are worthless
30: go to 10
Learn it, live it.
Progress will not occur until we totally eliminate “progressives”.
Alas, the repetitive chant of “private school” or “home school” is not going to help us anymore. For those that do, it will ensure your child is being taught the correct history, but the problem is unless we take back our public school system the 80% (and I am just guessing at the number) of kids that are in public school will be the voting block of the next generation. I am really starting to fear there is no turning back without an armed conflict of some sort and division of the union.
From the wikipedia article:
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home and within federal enclaves. The decision did not address the question of whether the Second Amendment extends beyond federal enclaves to the states, which was addressed later by McDonald v. Chicago (2010). It was the first Supreme Court case in United States history to decide whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
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