Today during dinner we had a math, history, and civics lesson all in one.
That's called inter-disciplinary or cross-curriculum for you non-education types.
We learned that the numbers 1 and 4 put together make 14.
We also learned about the 14th Amendment.
Also, on this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. This amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. It forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."
This still didn't stop the Supreme Court from upholding segregation with the Plessey decision in 1896 by claiming "separate but equal" did not violate the rights of minorities. Thankfully that was overturned in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Matthew wanted to know why his number didn't taste like strawberries.
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