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Is the education establishment really afraid of teaching the most basic foundation of our republican democracy – the Bill of Rights?

I will have to add Nancy Jester’s “Bear Arms” campaign T-shirt to my list of unique political ads. (I already added one today – the “Elect Jesus” bumper sticker I spotted on a car on I-285.)

Jester is the former DeKalb school board member running for state school superintendent on the GOP ticket.

She is selling this “Bear Arms” shirt for $20 on her campaign site with this explanation: In the early 2000s, the Georgia Department of Education adopted a social studies curriculum that is almost completely devoid of education on The Bill of Rights in elementary school. Yet, in third grade, we teach our children about the nine important people who “expanded rights.” Those nine people are: Paul Revere, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, and César Chávez.

The front of the shirt shows a guy in a 2nd amendment T-shirt with “Teach the bill of rights” and Jester’s name. The back of the shirt says in smaller letters, “Stay Calm and Vote Jester.” The site says Jester gets $5 from the sale of every shirt.

I understand this T-shirt’s theme could appeal to some voters, but it also has the potential to run off others who may question why bearing arms is being referenced in any form in a race for state school chief.

What do you think of this approach for a school superintendent candidate?

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