Civics education must be improved in American education. Now.

[valleyrogue]

7. Someone wrote it who doesn't know what they are talking about.

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No disrespect intended, but this assertion about schools and "civics" cannot go unchallenged. It sounds like the usual trashing the schools when in fact "civics" is taught all the time. It is called social studies, which includes history, political science, "civics," and all the rest. What people like YOU want is kids to be told what to think, and that isn't allowed in schools. A teacher's job is NOT to impose his or her political beliefs on students.

With all the Common Core crapola and other "reforms," you BET they teach "civics" in the schools. Hell, I was in a fifth-grade class last spring, and the teacher taught students how bills are introduced and made into law. They even had a mock Congress. This is a public school, a Title I school, in southern Oregon. This goes on all over the country. This is basically high school-level "civics" that has been filtered down to lower grades. You'd be shocked at how different the curriculum is. Teachers are even teaching about Greek myths in second grade, which used to be introduced and taught in fifth or sixth grade when I was in school as a student sixty years ago.

I am IN the schools, and I KNOW what is taught. Just because people don't vote the way you like isn't the fault of schools.

It is the same nonsense leveled at schools they don't teach "critical thinking." That is a load of crap, too.

I am not going to allow this myth to go unchallenged.

Just because people have viewpoints different than yours or vote differently than you do isn't the fault of schools. You don't get to make things up to try and make a point.