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Unbelievable: Common Core Problem Asks Kids to Choose Two Amendments to Remove From Bill of Rights
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| 03/31/2014
| Emily Hulsey
Posted on 03/31/2014 1:58:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A mother in Arkansas has expressed concern over her daughter’s recent Common Core school assignment that asked her to remove and replace two of the first ten amendments of the Constitution. The team assignment stated that the Bill of Rights is “outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer.” Here is a copy of the assignment:
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The mother who spoke up said she was particularly troubled by the fact that her daughter’s Sixth Grade History class had received no prior training in civics or how to amend the Constitution, which may lead those children to incorrectly believe that it can be changed by a “special committee” as suggested by the assignment.
“After she brought it home and explained her assignment to me, it made me question exactly what she was being taught. Where I can see a class using critical thinking skills to modernize the words, as to help them better understand the Amendments, giving an assignment to remove two then add two with little explanation as to why is upsetting,” she said.
We know that teaching our children false principles – particularly those pertaining to Americans’ basic rights – is dangerous because it can make them less likely to realize and speak up when those rights are being violated in the future. If the Common Core curriculum promotes some of those false principles (whether purposefully or not), it is time to make some big changes – before it’s too late.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antiamericanism; billofrights; commoncore; communismkills; communistagenda; communistgoals; communists; constitution; criminalconspiracy; cultureofcorruption; governmentschools; homeschool; indoctrination; jeb2016; liberalagenda; naughtteacherslist; obamunism; progressiveagenda; revisionisthistory; unions
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To: SeekAndFind
Look to see the teachers union coming forth with a declaration that the children of America unanimously agree the second amendment should be done away with.
This is propaganda in the making.
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posted on
04/01/2014 10:01:12 AM PDT
by
metalurgist
( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
To: SeekAndFind
Woman: I would like to ask the team what changes they would make if they were Hitler?
Graham Chapman: Well, speaking personally, I would annex the Sudetenland.
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posted on
04/01/2014 2:14:57 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
To: RIghtwardHo
"Why is that upsetting? Its just a thought experiment is all. We did a lot of this in Law School." Did you do those "thought experiments" before being familiar with the Constitution or after?
Do you understand why it makes a big difference?
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posted on
04/01/2014 4:46:31 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
To: SeekAndFind
Why would one reduce the Bill of Rights in order to protect our rights? It’s like asking “in order to protect your family, which of your 2 kids would you drown in the sea?”
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posted on
04/01/2014 4:51:36 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
To: Publius Valerius
The constitution enumerates God given rights and by no means limits or construes that they are only listed in the document... One cannot remove rights, just give them up without a fight.
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posted on
04/01/2014 6:51:54 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Youre a mature, emotionally developed, formally trained lawyer.
I think you got me mixed up with RightwardHo. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a copier engineer.
Imagine doing this in, say middle school, when civic knowledge and attitudes arent fully formed.
I can imagine it. My brother, who went to private school (I went to public) did problems like this in middle school. As I said, I did this in AP American Government in high school. I don't think middle school is too young to do this kind of thought experiment.
Its easy for me to see this assignment as a Delphi technique vehicle for a discussion limiting a number of important Amendmentssay, First, Fourth, Second, and Fifth. Throw in the Tenth, too, as this is a centrally organized educational program designed by people who clearly favor centralization over leaving any meaningful power to the States.
Just my opinion, but I think you're reading too much into it.
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posted on
04/01/2014 7:05:38 PM PDT
by
GAFreedom
(Freedom rings in GA!)
To: SeekAndFind
Add the 2nd Amendment back in, twice more.
;)
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posted on
04/01/2014 8:20:25 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
To: GAFreedom
Perhaps you’re right... Sorry about the gratuitous professional insult (lawyer).
But, I also have a strong feeling that having a centralized detailed curriculum is a lever for indoctrination. I think that education should be developed at the state level. Also, a centralized curriculum lets the educational methods theorists run wild with crazy teaching theories.
This is particularly true in mathematics, where I’ve seen them teaching fourth graders extremely involved and slow methods of division, when most of the kids simply need to learn arithmetic. I went to a PTA meeting and remarked to the teacher, “This is silly. The method you’re teaching is very cumbersome, and is effectively synthetic division. However, it’s about five years early for these kids, who have no idea of what polynomials are, and need the basic computational tools of arithmetic in order to eventually be able to work more complex problems.” He said something about modern methods.
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