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Subject: SNET: 9-Year-Olds Ace Florida Ballot
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9-Year-Olds Ace Florida Ballot
> CNSNews.com
> Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000
It was a lesson in disbelief for Louisiana fourth- and first-graders who
spent about a minute Thursday correctly selecting Democrat Al Gore or
Republican George W. Bush from the list of candidates on copies of the
controversial Florida presidential ballot."I went to the Internet and
printed
a copy of the ballot, and passed it out to my students," said Lisa
Burns, a
fourth-grade teacher at Stockwell Elementary School in Bossier City."I
gave
them a blue marker to vote for Gore and a red marker to vote for Bush.
They
did, and I realized 100 percent of my class had been able to vote for
the
correct person."A first-grade teacher repeated the test in her
classroom,
asking her students to darken the bubble that corresponded to Gore's
name. It
took her 6- and 7-year-olds about "one minute" to complete the ballot,
Stacey
Robinson said, with 19 of 24 selecting the Democrat candidate's
bubble.Robinson said she pointed out Gore's name to her students via an
overhead projector displaying a copy of the ballot because the majority
just
learned to read. "I said, boys and girls, each bubble belongs to a
name," she
said. "There's some grown-ups in South Florida who can't find Al Gore's
bubble. Here's his name. Can you find his bubble?"'I Wanted to Vote for
George Bush!'Nineteen correctly darkened Gore's bubbles, three selected
Buchanan's, one "voted" for Natural Law nominee John Hagelin further
down the
page - and one intentionally voted for Bush.Even in a first-grade
classroom,
vote tabulations were the subject of protest and controversy. "I thought
we
were voting," Brady McCoy, 6, of Haughton grumbled after he was told to
find
and punch the "Gore" bubble, the Shreveport Times reported."I wanted to
vote
for George Bush!" And he did.9-Year-Olds Ace the TestThe 9- and
10-year-old
students, all 22 of whom completed the ballot "immediately" and
correctly,
were shocked and amazed to discover adults in Florida had claimed
confusion
with the placement of the bubbles, Burns said."They were surprised about
that," she said. If You Don't Follow Directions, No Second Chance"They
were
also saying that the adults should have been responsible, asking for
help
with the directions if they didn't know. One of the things we constantly
talk
about in this class is if you don't follow directions, and don't ask for
help, you don't get a second chance."So they were saying, why should the
adults get a second chance," Burns continued.Burns and Robinson
initiated the
tests purely for educational purposes and as a prelude to civics and
current
events discussions, they said, and not to make a political statement."If
nothing else," Principal Tim Thompson said of the presidential ballot
situation in Florida, "this has been a great civics lesson for the whole
United States. I would hope most of the schools are using [this
controversy]
<like that in their classrooms."<A
HREF="http://www.cnsnews.com/"><CNSNews.com</A>
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