They have trounced the best students from upscale high schools in Forest Hills and Douglaston. Clara Barton High School Principal Jerry Resnick, an educator who cares for children, has inspired discipline, self-respect, and hard work among his 3,000 students. Dr. Leo Casey, a dedicated master teacher. Students are taught to present facts with the poise of preachers and the eloquence of orator-politicians. The class is divided into six units, each group learning several Articles of the Constitution.
Every student knows how to explain the Bill of Rights which guards the peoples' liberties.
The competition, modeled after Congressional hearings, is chaired by judges, lawyers, law professors, and public officials who ask the initial question and then follow up with searching demands for examples that prove the point. On to Higher Education Over the years, the Casey-trained scholars have gone on to universities and graduate schools of law, government, and the health professions. Clara Barton Constitutional Law alumni return to visit their successors during Christmas vacations. Twenty alumni devoted many hours to help the 1998 team members prepare for the New York City Competition. One former scholar, a recent graduate of Duke University, described how she awoke to her own capacities when she studied while other kids played basketball.