Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
Just to clarify, this sounds to me as though half of students actually disagree with the free press section of the first ammendment. The way this is worded it sounds like opinion - far more frightening than so many kids just being poorly educated!
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Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.
Just to clarify, this sounds to me as though half of students actually disagree with the free press section of the first ammendment. The way this is worded it sounds like opinion - far more frightening than so many kids just being poorly educated!