American Civics is no longer taught in most high schools due to tight budgets and other things being more important to educational policy makers. Do you think it should still be taught? Why or why not?
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This is a link to an article regarding the First Amendment and a survey of 100,000 high school students and administrators beliefs about the First Amendment. This would not fit in the question: http://www.kidspeakonline.org/knightstudy.htm According to the survey 51% of high school students think newspapers have to get permission from the government to publish articles.
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Yes it should be taught - at least to some extent. The lack of it has us voting for some real idiots and we're doing it to ourselves. I guess it's up to us as parents to do it though.
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<tin foil hat> It is not due to budget cuts but rather that history itself is being rewritten. Each new generation that gets shuffled through our government schools knows less and less of freedom and individual responsibility and accountability. This is by design. Sheep make better citizens for those in power. </tin foil hat>
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Of course it should be taught. People should be exposed before they are old enough to vote. It's important to all of us. Not only schools should be teaching parent should teach it, but many parent are clueless them selves.
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I never did very well in this class and I turned out okay. I never understood what it was supposed to accomplish for me. I wouldn't miss it. I don't think my kids would miss it.
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