More on Constitution Day

I have found out that most teachers feel that Constitution Day is a ridiculous law that Senator Byrd from West Virginia created for his own personal agenda. The fact is Civics/Government is a required class which all students must take to graduate form High School. Teachers I have talked to feel this is a waste of their precious, already reduced, and overloaded reduced class time.I had created a "stay awake" worksheet or quiz that I had emailed to all teacher in the building and have come to find out that not one used it during or after the quiz. I have heard through the grapevine that a few teachers shut their televisions off after announcements and began class. I am not offended by either of these however because I tend to agree that this law only gets in the way of normal instruction. The biggest issue is that there are no guidelines for the law, only stating that all educational institutions that receive federal funding are required to educate their students on the U.S. Constitution on that day every year. Why is there no required instruction on any other special topics each year like morality and ethics, environmentalism, or nutrition?

Monday was Constitution Day and I was put in charge of creating the activity for the entire school. It went off without a hitch . I was really nervous since this is only the second week I've been in the school. I showed a 15 minute video I had found on the Discovery United Streaming website throughout the school networked television system. It was on the First Constitutional Convention and I thought it was pretty good. It worked out well because I played it at the beginning of third hour witch is the school normal daily RIT (Reading is Thinking) time when the entire school reads for 15 minutes at the beginning of an extended 3rd hour. This way I did not interrupt teacher's normal instructional time.