Spears also observed that her daughter and the other kids in the class were apparently never taught

A Common Core worksheet handed out this year in a sixth-grade history class in Bryant, sydney boutique hotels Ark. required students to ditch two amendments from the Bill of Rights, reports EAGnews.org . Students were also told to plug their rights eliminations by creating a visual aid that could act as a clear representation of your proposal.
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The assignment s instructions, which include hideous grammatical errors such as the use of the plural pronouns they and their to refer to the singular noun government, tell students that the government of United States is currently revisiting the first 10 amendments sydney boutique hotels to the U.S. Constitution.
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Spears also observed that her daughter and the other kids in the class were apparently never taught anything sydney boutique hotels about the actual process of amending the Constitution. There s nothing about how an Amendment is ratified, wrote Spears.
Many children will think that the Bill of Rights is amended and can be changed by a special committee instead of an act of Congress, she said. I know that my child will not think this is true since I have made it my mission to be very much involved in her education.