Posted on 03/31/2014 1:58:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
You realize you’re equating the mental maturity of law students with sixth graders, right, counselor?
Please note, I’m not disagreeing.
Don’t forget to look among the emanations, too.
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)
“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”.
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.
Remove Communist Core from your life.
live - free - republic
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.
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.
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.
Another reason to homeschool!
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
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:
There is a lot more, click the link in the title to get further involved in seeing how they are destroying America.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]
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.
Bookmark.
A better assignment would have involved removing all but two.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
terrible assignment.
But there is one amendment that IMO should be repealed, and that’s amendment 16.
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