Posted by
Nee on Friday, March 28, 2008 2:50:20 PM
You’re a What????
Okay. My daughter is a sophomore and taking civics. The teacher, also a softball coach, gave this quiz. I need some help (and signs, Jam Apple, signs!) I want to know what the heck this person is teaching my kid. I understand that as young ‘uns they have lots of sympathy. But this kid is all about what is right and fair and gets it. That’s why in discussing it with my daughter, I was miffed. I could not find an exact quiz match, but maybe that is because teach there changed it to suit. Why would I think that? MMM, government skools. So, I found this one in the link below.
I have to believe this is the same one. But, some words have been changed to be politically correct, in my opinion. Which of course, you know really frosts me!! So here goes with the online quiz. Underneath in red, the actual kid quiz words. In red parentheses, I say “okay” if the statement is not changed, or add what the statement was on the kid quiz. The answers you could pick were: agree, maybe, disagree.
Personal Issues
Government should not censor speech, press, media or Internet
(used the word control)
Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft
(okay)
There should be no laws regarding sex for consenting adults
( instead of this, there was “Leave the decision of abortion to the individual.”)
Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs.
(drug laws do more hare than good, repeal them.)
There should be no National ID card.
(people should be free to come and go across the borders, live and work where they choose) (a doozy!!)
Economic Issues
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business
(Businesses and farms should operate without government subsidies.)
End government barriers to international free trade.
(People are better off with free trade than with tariffs.)
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security
(okay)
Replace government welfare with private charity.
(We should end taxes. Pay with user fees.)
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more.
(Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them)
My assumptions could be off on the last two.. But the scary thing is the wording and use of political correctness made my daughter’s answers label her as a “statist!!” And, naturally, that made me cringe. So…I took the quiz online, and was labeled a conservative.
I also took the kid answers and plugged them in and the label tells me my daughter is a centrist. What I am curious to understand is what defined the word “conservative” in class. My daughter said she answered based on that definition. That could also be a little white lie because she didn’t want to admit that her views were different from mine…I am very vehement in my convictions and not intimidating at all. J
Sigh, It frustrates the daylights out of me. Everyday, I get closer and closer home schooling all of my kids, except that I suck in math. Many of you may have seen this quiz…I tend to ignore that kind of stuff. So, if you haven’t, and even though we know we’re conservatives, just do it!
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html