Common core omits Bill Of Rights in 6th grade assessments
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 7 months ago to Education
This may make your heads catch on fire. And here is why we are sending our daughter to a private, INDEPENDENT school next fall.
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“is outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer,”
HOW is it out dated exactly?? These comments are just made as if they're fact instead of explaining their true intent... Which is of course to make the bill of rights seem UNIMPORTANT!!
Indoctrinate much???
Actually, that's kind of silly to pick on that point. Language naturally evolves over time, and as such rules are prone to change and shift with the culture. And one of the current grammatical shifts taking place in the English language involves redefining the plural pronouns “they” and “their” to be usable as singular pronouns as well. There is nothing wrong with this. Language is a living, constantly changing thing. If you want to speak a language that never changes, your only options are dead languages like Latin and Greek, which have stopped changing due to the fact that they're not spoken anymore.
I agree with the rest of the article, but it was kind of dumb for the author to pick on a piece of grammatical verbiage which is already commonly used every day in English speaking nations all across the globe.
Anyway, if the schools are trying to teach students about the Constitution and the ratification process, then they definitely need to reconsider their approach, because this doesn't seem like an effective method for accomplishing that goal.