Kalshion Posted February 1, 2005 Report Posted February 1, 2005 Survey Finds Students Ignorant Of Basic First Amendment Rights Got this story on the e-mail wire and found it rather.... disturbing... not because it's absolutely RIGHT.. but because... HAS IT TAKEN THEM THIS LONG TO FINALLY FIGURE IT OUT?!?!?!?!? quote: By Jimmy Moore Talon News February 1, 2005 WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- In a new study of high school students ironically released the day after the historic democratic elections in Iraq, basic freedoms such as the freedom of speech and of the press found in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution were found to be unimportant to them. quote: "Schools don't do enough to teach the First Amendment," Puntney lamented in the report. "Students often don't know the rights it protects. This all comes at a time when there is decreasing passion for much of anything. And, you have to be passionate about the First Amendment." quote: "Kids aren't learning enough about the First Amendment in history, civics or English classes," Dvorak remarked in a statement.
LostInSpace Posted February 1, 2005 Report Posted February 1, 2005 Well the public schools which are government institutions have no motivation in teaching anything about First Amendments or the constitution because a good and obedient citizen is an ignorant one.
Soback Posted February 2, 2005 Report Posted February 2, 2005 "When the country has the need to control it's population, it's already lost..." Don't remember who said this, but it's quite old.
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