Every year across the country, on September 17, educational institutions - from the largest universities to the tiniest one-room schoolhouses - offer educational programs about the Constitution of the United States. This year Manasota Move to Amend members participated once again. Jaime Canfield and Arlene Sweeting visited two local schools - one in Manatee County and one in Sarasota County. Social studies teacher, Chris Valcarcel, welcomed them to classes at St. Stephen's Episcopal School. And they joined history teacher, Jym Froelich, for a second year at Pine View School. Together, they presented to ten classes over the course of two days, reaching over 200 students. Jaime reports:
"We visited the 6th graders at St. Stephen's and the 9th graders at Pine View High School. Our presentation consisted of walking the students through the history of the existing amendments, the court cases that have given corporations the same constitutional rights as people, the ways in which many groups of people have been excluded from the rights stipulated in our constitution, and the history of how our citizens have mobilized for change. We plan to expand this educational outreach to as many different age groups in the effort to explain the need for the 28th amendment."
