Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes About School
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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
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When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
- Born: March 26, 1930
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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