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evilkumquat

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6. I've drilled the First Amendment into my children's heads

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 12:51 PM

Dec 2011

My ten-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son can each tell the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (something many Republican politicians can't do) as well as to recite four out of the five freedoms enshrined by the First Amendment (Speech, Press, Religion and Peaceably Assemble) but have trouble for whatever reason with the Right to Petition section.

My education growing up was lousy when it came to civil rights and I don't want my kids to go through the same crap.

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We have raised & are now raising-generations of children who are completely ignorant of their rights [View all] kpete Dec 2011 OP

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. Laelth Dec 2011 #1

You romanticize the past in terms of children frazzled Dec 2011 #2

You romanticize your own ignorance and naivete saras Dec 2011 #8

Thank you for calling me ignorant frazzled Dec 2011 #11

I don't know where you went to school, but the girls had no restrictions shraby Dec 2011 #9

In the 1950s and 60s? frazzled Dec 2011 #10

In the 50s and 60s. I was in high school in the 1950s, graduated in 1960. shraby Dec 2011 #12

They know they have rights treestar Dec 2011 #3

They not only don't know of and understand their rights, they kestrel91316 Dec 2011 #4

There's a reason our education system Phlem Dec 2011 #5

I've drilled the First Amendment into my children's heads evilkumquat Dec 2011 #6

They have the right to be rich and famous. athenasatanjesus Dec 2011 #7