I wonder if public education made it mandatory to have a course in government

[TEB]

As in how it is supposed to work , would people be more in tune with how GOP is screwing them. , I just had to give my future sister in law a crash course in government. How congress and senate are out to destroy every social safety net. Obama and fdr put in place ,And how bob mueller is a republican himself and no he is not on a witch hunt I added I respect him usmc infantry plt leader a public servant for decades he seems to be honorable ,I also had to explain in seeking help from a foreign enemy is bad to help gain the White House. ? Was Fox News blaming the dems for rising fuel prices since Harvey. She started mentioning this over lunch she said well gas is going up thanks to the EPA , and I am confused it was a civil discussion . My wife tapped my foot under table as in just drop it.

[Turbineguy]

1. Which is excactly why good republicans

don't want kids to learn how it's supposed to work.

[NotASurfer]

2. Education is left to the states and local school boards to screw up n/to

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Mandatory in Wisconsin Public Schools

late forties and fifties and it was called Civics. Geography was another mandatory Subject.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. also in KY We had it in 2nd half of 8th grade

by the end of the year, we were all ready to go vote. It is no longer even offered at that grade level much less required. High schools still offer American Government but it is not required.

Of course this was 1962.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. When the School Boards became the

launching pad for the Church Lady and their do gooder Hubbies,the first thing out the door was Civics. We do need none of that stuff,it causes our kids to drink beer and smoke that grass stuff and next thing you know,they start a fornicating.

Actual Statement made at our School Board meeting in Granite Falls,Minnesota 1969.

[lunatica]

4. It was taught in Civics class

[elleng]

5. We did, when I was growing up,

in NY '45 - 62.

History of Regents Examinations: 1865 to 1987

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/assessment/hsgen/archive/rehistory.htm

Incidentally, I graduated high school in '62, in NY, attended college in Ohio (public university,) and I was one of few (if any) freshmen at my university who had taken Final Exams.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Many high schools have, or at least used to have, a course

that covered that material - it might have been called Civics, or Social Studies, or something along those lines. The problem with high school courses is that when you're 16 or 17 a lot of the stuff presented in school can go in one ear and out the other. I know I can't remember much of what was taught in that course because at the time I wasn't very interested; I had to re-learn it much later.

[csziggy]

7. The class I had to take in the late 1960s was Americanism vs. Communism

Seriously, it was all about how the capitalist American society was infinitely better than the ungodly Soviets.

The one thing that really stuck with me was my teacher's insistence that the USA was better than the USSR because Americans did not have to carry IDs everywhere we went like the Soviet citizens did. Too bad that is not longer true - and that even then it wasn't true for quite a few Americans, some of whom were in that class.

[WinkyDink]

8. Public schools don't? They used to. My senior course was "Problems of Democracy." 50 years ago, ha!

[raven mad]

9. Courses in middle and high schools used to be called Civics.

Or American Government; the best teachers I had in high school were my American Government and Economics teachers. Back to core curriculum is ALL I can say about it.

[Solly Mack]

10. We did mock assemblies, mock courts, etc. in addition to other government classes.

World governments. American government. State government. Civics. World history. American history.

[Initech]

13. This is why we can't have nice things!

We can't even teach people how government works!

[pfitz59]

14. My state requires it....

http://www.sbe.wa.gov/GradRequirements/Civics.php#.Wa0Oj8h96uU

[zanana1]

15. But whose point of view would be represented?

I took a government course in high school, but the teacher was right wing.