Monday, January 31, 2005

Scary: Most High School students don't understand the 1st Amendment

Original Article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/
students.amendment.ap/index.html



"[...]when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories."

This scares me, ahhhhhhhh


"When asked whether people should be allowed to express unpopular views, 97 percent of teachers and 99 percent of school principals said yes. Only 83 percent of students did."


"Three in four students said flag burning is illegal. It's not. About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet. It can't."


I bet the half of students who said gov't can not restrict indecent material were guys who have looked up porn. :) j/k

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