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School Spikes MAGA Honor Student’s NHS Application Because of ‘Character Flaw’


Written by Wes Walker on February 5, 2019

URL of the original posting site: https://clashdaily.com/2019/02/school-spikes-maga-honor-students-nhs-application-because-of-character-flaw/

He met all the qualifications for National Honor Society, but his school found one ‘disqualifying flaw’. All the other ‘boxes’ in his application checked out. But his school refused to recommend him for one reason.

His political ‘Character Flaw’.

Boris Kizenko, a junior at Holmdel High School, said Sunday that his school’s administration and the “council” responsible for determining admittance into the NHS claimed he had a “character flaw.”

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Kizenko added that he met all of the NHS’s grade and community service requirements as well.

The school is back-pedaling and now says they don’t discriminate against politics. But other students from the school got a green light. And the only thing during the year that got him red-flagged by faculty was political: 

It was when he showed his school MAGA spirit. Watch:

‘Offensive’ T-shirts saying ‘Make Holmdel Great Again’ and an Instagram account giving various daily affirmations, including a Presidential quote were NOT received gladly by the school.

“I checked all the boxes, and there’s plenty of pro-choice, anti-Trump — openly — people who get into the National Honor Society,” he said.

Kizenko said that his school believed Trump’s quote — “If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big” — doesn’t represent the ideals of his class.

He said that when he posted his quote by Trump and also created “Make Holmdel Great Again” T-shirts for his re-election campaign, it became a “huge problem.”

“I think that kind of shows how the school is just against conservative students,” Kizenko said.
Source: Fox News Insider

If not that, what was his ‘flaw’?

The school hasn’t replied yet but they have been invited to do so.

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Nine States Consider Making High Schoolers Pass Citizenship Tests


December 4, 2014 By

URL of the Original Posting Site: http://www.tpnn.com/2014/12/04/nine-states-consider-making-high-schoolers-pass-citizenship-tests/?utm_source=Newsletter+12%2F5%2F14+4pm+&utm_campaign=Newsletter+12%2F5%2F14+4pm&utm_medium=email

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For decades, the federal Department of Education has placed a low priority on the importance of teaching U.S. history and civics. The cooperation with far-left teachers unions, the federalized education system in the U.S. has restricted the teaching of topics that will alert future generations to the dangers of collectivist ideologies and restrictive government. AMEN
 
After all, a young adult who does not understand the Constitution and it’s foundation in enlightenment thinking- that our rights are derived from God and guaranteed by government- is likely to shrug-off such usurpations and totalitarian abuses like executive amnesty edicts, unconstitutional gun laws and radicalized bureaucracies like Eric Holder’s so-called Department of Justice.
Don’t take my word for it; even the architect of Obamacare has proudly noted that the Obama Administration relied on an easily-duped, “stupid” American populace to enact the socialized medicine monstrosity.group imperial obama

Now, a nonprofit education group is calling for American high-schoolers to be required to pass the same citizenship test given to immigrants…AMEN

You know, when waiting in line and going through the legal immigration process mattered…

The Civics Education Initiative, an Arizona-based non-profit group, is pushing for legislation in Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico,  North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah that would require all high school students to pass the same test that immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship must pass. The test includes questions about U.S. history and government and the Constitution. 

There’s reason to believe too many Americans aren’t getting enough of a civics education these days. 

According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, just one-third of Americans can name all three branches of the federal government. More alarming is the fact that another third can’t name even a single branch. 

Only 13 percent of Americans knew that the Constitution was signed in 1787. Only 15 percent were able to correctly identify John Roberts as the chief justice of the Supreme Court. But fear not, people aren’t completely ignorant:  Nearly twice as many were able to identify Randy Jackson as an American Idol judge. 

Civics education has been placed largely on the backburner in American public schools as the focus of curriculum has shifted more toward science, technology, engineering and math to prepare students for the technology-based economy. STEM education is no doubt important: after, all Americans need to be properly trained to compete in the global economy. But by neglecting civics education, we undermine citizens’ sense of what it means to be an American and weaken the foundations of our society. AMEN

Let’s be fair; while we still retain, in theory, three distinctly separate branches of government, one can forgive the confusion of graduating students. After all, when a president operates as a legislator and an executive, are there, in fact, separate branches in place?

Still, the point remains that if America is going to come back from the precipice of fiscal and cultural ruin, an emphasis on the foundational principles and an understanding of what made America so great is needed in public schools. 

AMEN

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