Students' take-home assignment: Census kits

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-08-26-census-kits-schools_N.htm#

“The government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents, principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message: The Census is coming and here's why everyone should care.  The goal is to send posters, teaching guides, maps and lesson plans to every school in the nation, Puerto Rico and U.S. island territories to encourage everyone to participate in the national count. The materials will land in more than 118,000 schools and reach 56 million students.  ‘It's great to reach the children because children are such strong voices in their homes," says Renee Jefferson-Copeland, chief of the Census schools program. "In households that are linguistically isolated, they can express the information to their parents.’  Between January and March, the Census Bureau will help plan a week of Census education in schools. During Census Week, teachers will devote 15 minutes every day for five days to the topic by discussing such things as civic participation, confidentiality or geography.” è Nothing like going after the most impressionable in society to push government policy and demands on to its citizens.    This is a 30-some page census questionnaire going out that asks questions that the government does not need to know and is not part of the Constitutional requirement to count the citizens (which only requires a count of citizens every 10 years).  It also threatens penalties if the whole questionnaire is not filled out.  This is nothing more than identifying and labeling citizens according to liberal paranoia of those who dissent.

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