What First Amendment?

Paul Soglin makes a great point:

We went wrong in the 1970’s. That was when the core curriculum in America’s public schools changed and the the classical civics classes were dropped. I had no problem with expanding the curriculum, particularly given the absence of ‘real’ history. I had and still have a problem that most pubic schools do not have at least one required course at both the elementary and the high school level on American institutions, civics, or history that covers among other things, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Then maybe half, instead of ten percent, of all Americans would know their freedoms.

My high school government teacher (a Vietnam Vet) drilled these rights and words into our brains (drilled).

4 thoughts on “What First Amendment?”

  1. As one of the good old boys these days, I can understand why Soglin endorsed the good-old-boy candidates.
    Personally, I don’t want any more good old boys (and girls) on the board. I want candidates with vision — Lucy Mathiak and Maya Cole — to move us beyond support of the status quo, which only means more mediocrity in the MMSD.

  2. No, he works for a local software company.
    Do we all have to share where we work in order to support a candidate?

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