At school Ben’s tenacious attitude doesn’t always get the best of the teachers. In US government Ben has been creating obstinate arguments that are logical but irrelevant to the subject at hand. He figures from the book he reads called, Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, that high school history books are way more interested in making us love our country revere all the famous historical dudes than they are getting the facts right. Mr. Lambeer, the teacher, has notified the class they will be learning about the Constitution within the next few and of course, Ben brings up controversy. Ben says out loud, “Did you know the Framers recommend we revisit the Constitution about every twenty years?” Mr. Lambeer is perplexed about what has just happened and Ben goes on about he thinks, “Yeah, they knew things change, that the Constitution could get stale in the face of progress.” Lambeer doesn’t appreciate what Bens doing at all cordially says we’ll save questions for the end. Doesn’t stop Ben. He continues on and brings up endless topics just to start an in depth debate with Lambeer.
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