1-3.4
Standard 1-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how government functions and how government affects families.
1-3.4 Summarize possible consequences of an absence of laws and rules, including the potential for disorderliness and violence
It Is Essential For Students To Know:
- It is essential for students to identify laws in the local community and consider the consequences of breaking them.
- Students should cite examples of a government carrying out its legal authority in their local community.
- It is essential that students understand the role of laws in keeping their communities safe.
- Students should suggest and justify rules and laws for their own neighborhoods and communities.
- It is essential for students to identify the consequences that will occur when people are not obeying rules and laws and the outcomes that can occur when rules or laws are broken.
- Examples of disorderliness or violence that can occur when individuals break rules or laws are essential.
It is Not Essential For Students To Know:
- It is not essential for students to know details of the criminal justice system.
- Students do not need to know specific or graphic examples of criminal violence.
- Students do not need to know the names of specific laws or rules.
- It is not essential for students to know the specific punishments that are attached to breaking specific rules or laws.
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