Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington

[KamaAina]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/emergency-team-of-8thgrade-civics-teachers-dispatc,21023/

With lawmakers still at an impasse over increasing the debt ceiling, a special team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers was air-dropped into Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works. “We started them off with the basics, like the difference between a senator and a representative, and then moved on to more complex concepts, like what a resolution is,” Bozeman, MT social studies teacher Heidi Rossmiller told reporters as all 535 members of Congress copied down the definition of “checks and balances” from a whiteboard in the House chamber. “It’s been a bit of an uphill battle, since most of them seemed to have no real sense of how or why a bill is passed, and Sen. [Harry] Reid [D-NV] had to come up to me during a break and ask, ‘Ms. Rossmiller, what happens if Congress can’t reach a compromise?’ But hopefully it will all start to sink in soon.” At press time, an unruly House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had noisily stormed out of a lecture on bipartisan cooperation, claiming it was “too hard.”

[liberal N proud]

1. You knew it had to happen

A middle schooler could do better than Congress.

[progressoid]

2. Rec!

[IdaBriggs]

3. Drat! Only the onion!

A brilliant idea -- maybe someone could sponsor a demonstration on Capital Hill?

[KamaAina]

4. The Million Teacher March!

[IdaBriggs]

5. Hey, I'd sign a white house petition!

Hmm. Anyone know if it is open?

ON EDIT: Just checked - it is closed. Sigh.

[StrictlyRockers]

6. Send these nutjobs back to Schoolhouse Rock!

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[winter is coming]

7. Shame this is just the Onion.

My 8th grade civics teacher could have tossed in an enlightening lecture on marijuana decriminalization.

[Chico Man]

8. Hopefully they defined the rider

And understood the Power of the Purse.. that which we appear to be witnessing in all of it's federalist glory.

[MissDeeds]

9. Awesome

I'm sure these teachers know far more about how government is supposed to work than most of the asshats in DC.

K&R

[Nimyth]

14. To True

and mildly depressing to think that not only did a percentage of citizens vote these clueless idiots in, they still don't realize that 80% of what their rep tells them about the constitution/government is just flat out wrong.

[rocktivity]

10. Foo-kin-bee-YOO-tee-ful!!!

rocktivity

[LiberalAndProud]

11. It would be a valid strategy.

Satire: sad inducing humor

[Initech]

12. I think we need to teach the pundits first.

Starting with the dolts on Fox & Friends!

[lastlib]

17. those nitwits are unteachable.

You cannot educate a diseased mind.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. My high school civics teacher was incredible.

You talk about a teacher shaping my life, she did it.

I'd send her in a heartbeat.

[Richardo]

15. Score!

[Solly Mack]

16. Teehee

[4_TN_TITANS]

18. Note: this was from 2011

During another so-called catastrophe.

[rbrnmw]

19. If only it were true