Friday, November 13, 2009

The future belongs to such as you

Laura and I teach constitutional law to eighth graders at an "inner city" school a few times as month as part of GW's Street Law program.  While most of our discussions tends toward football and whether the Redskins will ever win a game, there have been a few gems from the lovely children:

Us: Who can tell us what an immigrant is?
Kids: Criminals and terrorists from other countries.
Us: Umm...okay.  Do you know what happens when a person who is in the country illegally is caught?
Kid 1: They should be executed! Don't they shoot immigrants?
Us: Well, actually, the term is deported...
Kid 1: Oh, right.  My dad was deported last year.
Us:........

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