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Common Core assignment makes sixth-graders SCRAP ["outdated"] Bill of Rights amendments
Daily Caller ^ | October 8, 2013 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/09/2013 2:47:15 PM PDT by grundle

Well, America: if you thought the people behind the Common Core couldn’t possibly be any more moronic or tone deaf, you were wrong.

A Common Core worksheet handed out this year in a sixth-grade history class in Bryant, Ark. required students to ditch two amendments from the Bill of Rights, reports EAGnews.org. Students were also told to plug their rights eliminations by creating “a visual aid that could act as a clear representation of your proposal.”

EAGnews says the assignment is part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, an attempt by educrats to standardize various K-12 curricula across the country. This fall, 45 states and the District of Columbia have begun implementing the curriculum.

The assignment’s instructions, which include hideous grammatical errors such as the use of the plural pronouns “they” and “their” to refer to the singular noun “government,” tell students that “the government of United States is currently revisiting” the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Unknown federal officials “have determined” that the Bill of Rights “is outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer,” the instructions say.

Consequently, the sixth-graders were asked to “participate on the National Revised Bill of Rights Task Force.” They were required to “omit two and add two amendments to the Bill of Rights.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: commoncore; education; publiceducation; publicschools

1 posted on 10/09/2013 2:47:16 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

This “core” is rotten.


2 posted on 10/09/2013 2:48:01 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: FReepers
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3 posted on 10/09/2013 2:50:12 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: grundle

Don’t bother with the First Amendment, kids; that one’s already dead.


4 posted on 10/09/2013 2:51:02 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: grundle

Well, the Constitution is soooo negative, a real downer. Nothing like removing clutter to freshen things up.


5 posted on 10/09/2013 2:51:17 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: grundle

Is “common core” the big one in the middle of a carbunkle?


6 posted on 10/09/2013 2:51:59 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: grundle
11 years olds being taught that their lives are expendable property of the state....and we wonder why there are now so many suicides among middle school age children?!

Leftists need to be exterminated. I'm done with being polite. They are a disease.
7 posted on 10/09/2013 2:57:07 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: grundle
Said but true that teachers are now, as they have ever been, mere employees. They do as they are told, however many of them manage to do stupid things on their own initiative in order to gain favor with their bosses.
8 posted on 10/09/2013 2:59:24 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: grundle

Clearly, as misnomer. It’s actually “Communist Core”.


9 posted on 10/09/2013 3:06:05 PM PDT by ducdriver (judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. (Ps. 42))
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To: grundle

Dear Teacher,

I think we should void the 5th Amendment so we can drag clowns like you off to jail, without too much fuss.


Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.


10 posted on 10/09/2013 3:18:02 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Wanderer99
I'm not for removing any of the existing amendments (of the first ten), but maybe they should add a new one:

"Mo lawyer or graduate of a law school shall be elected to the office of President or Vice President of the United States, or shall serve in the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States."

11 posted on 10/09/2013 3:55:29 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: grundle

“...if you thought the people behind the Common Core couldn’t possibly be any more moronic or tone deaf...”

They are neither moronic or tone deaf; they are attacking.


12 posted on 10/09/2013 3:57:35 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack
Here are two amendments to get rid of:

The (square root of -1)th Amendment: The Right to Privacy and Abortion.

2. The (infinity)th Amendment: The Right to the Separation of Church and State.

What? These two aren't in the Constitution? That's not what the liberals/Democrats claim. They are always referring to the Constitutional "Right to Privacy" so we have a Constitutional Right to Abortion and a Constitutional Right to the Separation of Church and State.

13 posted on 10/09/2013 4:25:36 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: grundle

I have no problem with the assignment.Sounds like it could draw more students to originalism then drive them away.


14 posted on 10/09/2013 4:28:58 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: TalBlack

Evil never sleeps.
I think Cruz is the only senator that understands this.


15 posted on 10/09/2013 5:23:05 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
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