I actually have mixed feelings on this. My initial thought is that this is great! Everyone should know the founding docs!
But how do we make sure the people teaching it are conveying them properly, and not with the “woke” lens? And having the government mandate anything...even something good...into our education can be an unnerving idea. Free market indicates that schools should offer what the students demand. But then, they do receive state funding, so I can be persuaded. I just don’t think it is simple.
But this quote? ? It makes me think his education failed him.
"What [the bill is] saying is that we want to indoctrinate college students on their dime to what we think is important," State Rep. Michael Rivers (D) said in objection to the bill. "If you in college and you ain't learning this stuff yet, it's kind of late. ... This [bill] is just blowing smoke."
He's pretty right though. This is a performance bill - you learn about the Federalist Papers / Constitution / Declaration in like third or fourth grade and all through grammar school / junior high / high school. By the time you're in college, you get to pick what you want to learn, and if you take US History, you'll learn even more about them.
I'd be less annoyed if these legislatures were actually fixing the damn roads. Where I live, I've written to the state legislature every month for the past ten years about the dilapidated stuff we have to drive on, and we're at the point where the roads are so bad there's a spot where people have to stop in the middle of the road and let the other person pass because there's a pothole so big, the entire lane is missing. It's just a one-way street because of disrepair.
I actually have mixed feelings on this. My initial thought is that this is great! Everyone should know the founding docs!
But how do we make sure the people teaching it are conveying them properly, and not with the “woke” lens? And having the government mandate anything...even something good...into our education can be an unnerving idea. Free market indicates that schools should offer what the students demand. But then, they do receive state funding, so I can be persuaded. I just don’t think it is simple.
But this quote? ? It makes me think his education failed him.
He's pretty right though. This is a performance bill - you learn about the Federalist Papers / Constitution / Declaration in like third or fourth grade and all through grammar school / junior high / high school. By the time you're in college, you get to pick what you want to learn, and if you take US History, you'll learn even more about them.
I'd be less annoyed if these legislatures were actually fixing the damn roads. Where I live, I've written to the state legislature every month for the past ten years about the dilapidated stuff we have to drive on, and we're at the point where the roads are so bad there's a spot where people have to stop in the middle of the road and let the other person pass because there's a pothole so big, the entire lane is missing. It's just a one-way street because of disrepair.
Definitely stop waiting for the government