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The Writers / Rosie Need to Brush Up on the Constitution

posted 7 years ago by radrobd
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I've never seen the original Broadway musical, so I don't know if this was an actual line from the play or added for the live TV adaption (it wasn't in the 2007 movie). Rosie O'Donnell, playing the gym teacher, scolds Tracy for her hair height, saying "your quaff is quashing this child's Constitutional right to a sub-standard public education."

WRONG!! There is no Constitutional right to an education. Not now, not then, not ever. The framers NEVER included education as a Constitutional right and the Supreme Court has never ruled that education is a fundamental Constitutional right (even though they've expanded rights to include the right to marry, obtain an abortion, etc.). The right to an education has never been defined as a Constitutional right by the SCOTUS.

Either the writers screwed up or maybe Rosie ad-libbed the line?

[–] BestOfAllPossible 7 years ago

Why does it matter? Characters in musicals don't need to be correct or accurate. Goodness knows people in real life get things wrong all the time.

[–] radrobd 7 years ago

Wow, really. Libs talk about "fake news," but spread misleading propaganda all the time. Rosie's character was playing a teacher. A teacher would (or should) know this.

[–] BestOfAllPossible 7 years ago

It's a work of fiction. She also advocates throwing balls at special ed kids. I hardly think this character is supposed to be a glowing example of how the world “should” work.

[–] BarelyHere 7 years ago

If you really don't know the difference between a musical and the news you might want to spend less time trolling and more time getting a basic elementary school education.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

[–] marvelass 7 years ago

BarelyHere, conservatives/Republicans can't tell the difference between entertainment and news anymore. Look at Fox News, which has been detrimental to the integrity of news overall, if radrobd wants to talk about right-wing propaganda. The GOP is anti-education, which is why Republicans tend to be misinformed and easily duped.

[–] BarelyHere 7 years ago

That was a pretty half-assed attempt at trolling, kid.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

[–] fortifarse 7 years ago

You know what else??
During I Can Hear The Bells she's not ACTUALLY hearing bells, and auditory hallucinations can be indicative of brain trauma, so they should handed included a scene where she visits a neurologist!