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FakeNoose

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4. I had Civics as a senior in high school, and I found it fascinating

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:05 PM

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That class and that civics teacher inspired me and opened up the entire world for many of us in the late 1960's. Several of my younger brothers and sisters were lucky enough to get the same teacher when they became seniors, and we all benefitted.

I'm sorry that most public high schools no longer offer Civics and it's mainly a budgeting issue. If the Civics teacher can also teach another subject such as a language elective or perhaps some other non-core subject, then the school can afford to hire that teacher full-time in both capacities. Civics itself as an elective course isn't enough to justify a fulltime teacher salary, sad to say.

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Do You Know Civics? Why Do So Many Americans Not Know How Their Government Works? PBS [View all] appalachiablue Yesterday OP

Truth told, I didn't get civics in public school, no_hypocrisy Yesterday #1

Similar, our public school education in civics was scant, to say the least. appalachiablue Yesterday #7

A democracy depends upon an informed, educated populace. Irish_Dem Yesterday #2

Those folk in Kentucky who were outraged they couldn't vote against Mamdani. cbabe Yesterday #3

Wow, how clueless, dangerous and sad. appalachiablue Yesterday #5

Exactly. We need to start teaching civics literacy. Irish_Dem Yesterday #6

I had Civics as a senior in high school, and I found it fascinating FakeNoose Yesterday #4

I had a year of civics my senior year in high school, too. rsdsharp Yesterday #8

Same here, but we took it our sophomore or junior year. mwmisses4289 Yesterday #11

I remember... 2naSalit Yesterday #9

I hope it's more obvious that the lack of civics in schools coincides... appmanga Yesterday #10

Sadly starting sometime in the 1980's, civics classes mwmisses4289 Yesterday #12

If our schools taught civics and critical thinking, we would be a much better society. Borogove Yesterday #13