Bring Civics Back to the Classroom | National Review

We used to have a semester of "Civics" in HS. They need to bring that back.

Col Joseph Lenertz I can speak for our local area in Pennsylvania. It's being taught throughout the various grade levels. Senior year students take either AP Government or Principals of Democracy as a required course. I teach Western Civilizations we expose students to the numerous variations of governments and the roots of our democratic system. All we can do is to plant the seeds of understanding how government operates. Students do lack the historic perspective of how our system of government evolved and operates today.

Excellent Post Col Joseph Lenertz - This wake up call is way overdue... The educational system throughout our country has been totally absent from what is really important in the education of our children and the budding leaders of our nation... CIVICS is one of the most important elements of education that we have, as it provides us with the information needed to relate to people, government and ourselves at a time when pubic chaos abounds and there are more followers than leaders and those that follow are so myopic that they don't even evaluate the groups or individuals that they decide to follow! Thus, these followers become the developmentally uneducated for living in today's world without destroying everything around them because of their lopsided views... It is not totally across the board, thank God, but there are those who fail to teach the good, fail to teach what is important in a CIVICS class... Kudos to all those who still strive to teach our young the important lessons in life...the important lessons of Freedom...