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08-28-2011, 08:42 AM
#42
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Location: Nevada
Posts: 6,958
Great. Unfortunately, true. People don't know geography, I have seen spelling errors from AP and other major news sources online and on the TV (runners under the newscasters), they don't know history. It's scary.
08-28-2011, 09:07 AM
#45
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: western NC
Posts: 175
I don't think my kids, now in their 50s, ever had a civics class and they both have master's degrees, one in occupational therapy and the other in molecular biology. Shortly after getting an A in world geography in middle school the elder asked me where Norway is. I nearly wept. It's even worse today. When I was in the 8th grade in a fairly rural school district in NY I had a good exposure to the US constitution and long before I went to law school I knew all about the separation of powers (which gets more and more muddled these day regretably)the electoral college, the bill of rights and most of the other contents. When I went to law school with a bunch of kids fifteen years my junior when I was in my late 30s I had a real leg up. They are too busy teaching stuff that parents should have taught long before their children started school, like it's a no-no to bully others expecially if they are weaker in any way than you. ARRGH the parents of this society must belly up to the bar about ethics and sex when it's appropriate. The notion of right and wrong should come with mother's milk.
08-28-2011, 11:44 AM
#49
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Location: Warrensburg, MO
Posts: 396
Originally Posted by marknfran
Originally Posted by Ditter43
Don't worry about democrats versus republicans -- relax, here is our real
problem.
In a Purdue University, Political Science classroom, they were discussing
the qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty
simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of
age.
However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was "the
requirement to be a natural born citizen". In short, her opinion was that
this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
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The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the
floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating.
"What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country
than one born by C-section?"
problem.
In a Purdue University, Political Science classroom, they were discussing
the qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty
simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of
age.
However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was "the
requirement to be a natural born citizen". In short, her opinion was that
this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
e
The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the
floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating.
"What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country
than one born by C-section?"
:shock:
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