Schools Ordered to Hold Constitutional Day
Sen. Byrd (D-WV) usually slips amendments into legislation that spends taxpayer money on pork projects in West Virginia. But now he has used his sly talents for something else entirely — he added an amendment to a spending bill that orders all federally funded schools (including colleges) to hold a program commemorating the signing of the Constitution in 1787 on or around 17 September every year.
This’ll be sure to end up pissing off everybody. Liberal educators will be mad that the federal government is mandating changes to the curriculum, and conservatives will be mad with the material presented. “Why is that?” I hear you ask:
Miss Aspey said federal laws prohibit curriculum mandates, but the Byrd mandate “doesn’t dictate to schools the content or the specifics of their Constitution Day program.” …“Each school can rely on the ingenuity of its educators to determine how best to present its own program on the Constitution,” [Byrd] said.
What do you think the presentation content will be in Berkely?
