Comments on: O’Connor: NCLB Has Squeezed Civics Off the Curriculum http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/06/09/oconnor-nclb-has-squeezed-civics-off-the-curriculum/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:03:38 -0500 hourly 1 By: Robert Pondiscio http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/06/09/oconnor-nclb-has-squeezed-civics-off-the-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-4121 Robert Pondiscio Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:13:52 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=482#comment-4121 Welcome back. VC. We've missed your curmudgeonly stylings around here. Where've you been? Didn't you promise to post at least three warm and fuzzy comments not too long ago? I think you still owe two more! Robert Welcome back. VC. We’ve missed your curmudgeonly stylings around here. Where’ve you been? Didn’t you promise to post at least three warm and fuzzy comments not too long ago? I think you still owe two more!

Robert

]]> By: Vital Core http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/06/09/oconnor-nclb-has-squeezed-civics-off-the-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-4119 Vital Core Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:30:14 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=482#comment-4119 <i>O’Connor noted that two-thirds of Americans can name at least one of the judges on American Idol, but fewer than one in ten can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.</i> Well, hopefully that will improve now that O'Connor is off. My thought: why should students bother to learn the the names of Justices who obviously don't bother to read the Constitution? Bad role models. Students would do better to stick with Simon Cowell. Let's just say he doesn't use penumbral reasoning. We've had some pretty bad justices during my lifetime, but I swear my 10 year old could poke holes in O'Conner's reasoning on the bench. O’Connor noted that two-thirds of Americans can name at least one of the judges on American Idol, but fewer than one in ten can name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Well, hopefully that will improve now that O’Connor is off. My thought: why should students bother to learn the the names of Justices who obviously don’t bother to read the Constitution? Bad role models. Students would do better to stick with Simon Cowell. Let’s just say he doesn’t use penumbral reasoning.

We’ve had some pretty bad justices during my lifetime, but I swear my 10 year old could poke holes in O’Conner’s reasoning on the bench.

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