High School Students Should Be Required to Take Civics Classes

[JohnLocke]

Many students do not know anything about our government.

[HFishbine]

1. Absa

freakin'-lutely! Some adults too!

[Cush]

2. I did

Had it in 8th Grade, then again in 12th

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Agreed

Here is what I would like to come back

Stop this pandering to BOTH sides

I want students to STUDY THE CLASSICs, and I mean Plato,
Aristotle, and others... if I could do it, why can't they?

I want students to take US History, and I mean REAL US HISTORY.

If parents have a problem with kids ACTUALLY DISCUSSING the
founding fathers, the Enlightenment, the Civil Rights Movement
and even current events, TOUGH! The role of the schools is to TEACH.

and yes I mean discuss teh good, the bad and the uggly, yep, the
Founding Fathers were great and some had slaves and suported SLAVERY.

Oh and yes, I want students to be ABLE TO DISCUSS These things.

Oh and those standarized tests, to hell with them, bring back
the ESSAY EXAM... and teach kids how to write and how to THINK.

Of course NO KID should graduate without a US CIVICS course, where they would be required to discusss, learn and apreciate the US
CONSTITUTION, enough alraedy, they need this!

And yes, if we are requiring people to register for the Selective Service, fine, REQUIRE all to register to vote by their 18th birthday, want a drivers licence, REGISTER at the same time.

Anybody with me? I intend to run when we finally settle down, and
yes this is the agenda

[madrchsod]

4. in il. you have to

pass a constution test to graduate from high school.

[democratreformed]

5. My vote

is YES.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Dupe...double posted

please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=728342

Thanks,
MrsGrumpy
DU Moderator

[markus]

7. Most do

However, as the poster from Illinios pointed out, they should be required to pass a test to complete High School.

We participated in a Model U.N. Students should be required to learn Roberts Rules of Order and participate in a joint decision making exercise of some sort.

(Therein lies a tale, as the poet said. I flunked freshman high school civics. For the model U.N. I was assigned China, and decided (in 1970) to represent Red China. Given that I was in a Catholic School, and our textbook was comparative U.S. and Soviet systems, this was probably a Bad Idea. None of my letters to the Albanian Interest Section of the U.N. asking for information on P.R.C. were answered. I can only hope they are enshrined somewhere in a great Government Warehouse, perhaps next to the Ark of the Covenant.).