[Conspiracy Guy]

Must be non-union teachers in these schools.

[jmc813]

.” It seems that one day the president discovered the First Amendment was missing. No one could find it. No one could even remember what it said.

I won't be the one to make a CFR comment. :-)

[DoughtyOne]

Well with tens of thousand so schools in the US, this is a start.  It's also a sad commentary.  Folks, what ever happened that made a program like this necessary?  Joe McCarthy must be spinning in his grave!

The program sounds pretty good except for a couple of troubling aspects.

Students and faculty at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., are working together to implement a new school-governance plan that gives
everyone a voice in decision-making. Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss., just held a “constitutional convention,” drafting a plan to ensure that students have input
in shaping the life of the school. (It’s up for a vote this fall.) And in Massachusetts, Hudson High School spent the year building a new governance model – a bold
experiment in student leadership and democratic dialogue that begins this fall.

While I do think that some involvement by children in the decision making process is warranted at the high school level, these are still kids.  I would rather see exercises in mock town settings where the city officials were rotated off and the other classmates could vote up or down various city plans etcetera.  Empowerment shouldn't be overplayed before adulthood.  Still, learning those principles at teenagers is a good thing.  Adults do still need to be the ultimate decision makers.

As for the use of the term "democratic", don't kid yourselves what's driving this.  It's isn't quite as totally conservative as this article would have you believe.  True conservatives don't hawk the term "democratic" constantly.  People who want you to vote "democratic" do.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[DrNo]

It seems that one day the president discovered the First Second Amendment was missing. No one could find it. No one could even remember what it said.

The End.

[eyespysomething]

these elementary students registered more than 300 high school students to vote.

One sentence I never thought I'd see. Maybe they gave them a civics lesson also. Is Civics even taught anymore? Or has it been replaced by "I'm OK, You're OK: The Inclusion of Homosexuals in America?"

/ sarcasm

[eyespysomething]

these elementary students registered more than 300 high school students to vote.

One sentence I never thought I'd see. Maybe they gave them a civics lesson also. Is Civics even taught anymore? Or has it been replaced by "I'm OK, You're OK: The Inclusion of Homosexuals in America?"

/ sarcasm

[eyespysomething]

these elementary students registered more than 300 high school students to vote.

One sentence I never thought I'd see. Maybe they gave them a civics lesson also. Is Civics even taught anymore? Or has it been replaced by "I'm OK, You're OK: The Inclusion of Homosexuals in America?"

/ sarcasm

[DrNo]

It seems that one day the president discovered the First Second Amendment was missing. No one could find it. No one could even remember what it said.

The End.

[Melpomene]

In related news, school officials also recently discovered that the Ten Commandments contain some pretty darned good ideas.