FARMINGTON – Any student from Sue Taylor’s kindergarten class can tell you a little about the Constitution.
About 15 of them at W.G. Mallett School were treated to a lesson about it from attorney Claire Andrews. Using a “Schoolhouse Rock” video about the preamble to the Constitution and the book “We the Kids” by David Catrow, she explained that the Constitution was written so that Americans would have rules.
“I feel sorry for those people because they didn’t have any rules,” student Shantel Hallman said after the lesson as she drew a picture.
Andrews, the wife of Assistant District Attorney Jim Andrews, had asked the students to draw pictures of why they thought the Constitution or rules were important. No running down the stairs, said Abby McCarthy, who drew a picture of herself “going down the stairs safely.”
No hitting, no pushing and no kicking were some of the other rules that the kids said keep them safe.
“The flag will keep the kindergartners safe and the rules,” Paige Stone said as she drew her version of an American flag in pink, purple, green and blue. Apparently that was simply self-expression, since she was well-informed about the flag’s colors when queried by her teacher.
No surprise to adults in the room, Andrews’ son, Ben, a student in the class, eagerly shouted Bush’s name when his mother asked the class if they knew who their president is.
He’ll be president until he dies, Zoe Huish said from a stool in the corner. Claire Andrews gently corrected her, to which another little voice somewhere in the room said, “George Washington was a president and he died.”
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