A July 4th-themed assignment promoted by one of the biggest teachers unions in the U.S. instructs students to declare independence from something with authority, such as laws or their parents.
The “Your Declaration of Independence” assignment is directed toward high schoolers and can be found on the American Federation of Teachers’s (AFT) Share My Lesson platform. Students are asked to “declare their own independence from something they would like to be free of” after reading the Declaration of Independence in class, according to a description
The worksheet lists more than a dozen suggestions for students to center their two-page declaration around, including “your parents,” “a sibling,” “laws” and “school.”
“Keep in mind: You’re granting the fact that this subject currently has authority over you. If you can’t do that, it’s a bad subject,” the assignment reads. “If you think nothing has authority over you, you’re arrogant and you’ll just have to pretend.”
Students are also given a series of questions to answer in their writing, such as “what does it mean to be free?” and “how is your subject preventing you from being free?”
Teachers union promotes assignment suggesting students declare independence from parents
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