CLUELESS...With A Capital C

PALM CITY — "The students might not have known the Constitution's first 10 amendments are known as "The Bill of Rights" before American history class Monday.

But after Chief Judge William Roby explained the Constitution to the Hidden Oaks Middle School eighth graders, the students were debating the importance of those rights.

"Sometimes the Bill of Rights are over adults' heads," said teacher James Anderson. "So for these teenagers to really start arguing about the rights and to understand them ... it's amazing."

One activity that most speakers will do with students is to ask them which five rights in the Bill of Rights they would be willing to do without.

Luke Karner-Brown, 14, and Sara Gresham, 13, both agreed they would be willing to give up their right to bear arms.

"I don't care if people have guns or not. I could probably live without a lawyer," Luke said.

Sara was OK giving away the right to "protection from unreasonable searches and seizures."

"I don't think I'd be trying to hide anything," she said."

I can't castigate the public school system for such incredibly stupid children because the basic rights shared by all of humanity are tenets that can only be taught at home, and through example. School makes them memorize dates, and places, and things, but children sent to institutes of learning without even being prepped in the most basic fundamentals of life on planet earth have only their parents to blame. I tend to think of the public education system as fleshing out a solid but bare-boned skeleton, but without knowledgeable and honest parents these poor kids are being sent to liberal-la-la-land without a value system in place, and THAT is what creates so many moonbats in waiting.