School Assignment To Surrender Constitutional Rights Upsets Parents
Teacher probably should have run that one by the folks at home
The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.
"I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."
They're the words that Florida father Aaron Harvey was stunned to find his fourth-grade son had written, after a lesson in school about the Constitution.
Aaron Harvey's son wrote as part of a school lesson, "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure." TheBlaze has redacted the child's name.
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Time to move that kid somewhere else before he is ruined.
If freedom does survive another generation or two in this country, I don't think public schools will. The forces of "progress" have too thoroughly infested them for anything other than taking off and nuking the site from orbit to work.
Thinking some more about this, the teacher, principal and superintendent ought to be fired, and the school board impeached.
But no tar and feathers. At least not this time.