Curtis Creek students celebrate Constitution Day

“On this day, 222 years ago, 39 fairly new Americans signed the Constitution,” said Margie Bulkin, Curtis Creek School District superintendent, Thursday to kick off the leadership class’s Constitution Day assembly.

Bulkin told students the importance of keeping citizenship alive, especially within the school community.

Curtis Creek teacher Carol Smith’s leadership class and student government put on a skit, donning quirky costumes, to explain what the various parts of the preamble to the Constitution mean.

The preamble says: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

A constitution is a rule book for how to run the government, said student body vice-president and eighth-grader Ashley Derichsweiler.

“It was so well written and worked so well we still use it today, with very little changes,” she told students.

“It’s just about the most important document in our history,” a student said in the skit.

“What’s domestic tranquility?” another asked.

“Our government tries to make it so states get along,” a student replied. “It’s cool, man.”

While going over “general welfare,” leadership students told their peers, “schools are one of the things our government provides for the good of the public.”

“What about ‘the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity?’,” a student in the skit asked.

The country’s founders believed liberty was a basic right every person is entitled to, and they wanted to ensure their children’s children would have liberty, the leadership students replied.