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Former Supreme Court Justice Souter on The Danger of America's 'Pervasive Civic Ignorance' (Original Post) nycbos Jun 2018 OP
It's very relevant, was then, is now, and will be for a long time. elleng Jun 2018 #1
If any American thinks ending civics in public schools wasn't by design, they've been sleepwalking. ancianita Jun 2018 #2
When I was Rebl2 Jun 2018 #3

ancianita

(36,238 posts)
2. If any American thinks ending civics in public schools wasn't by design, they've been sleepwalking.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:56 PM
Jun 2018

Ever since the 70's, the civics Americans have learned has been through much unnecessary wear and tear and national suffering.

The loss of civics instruction in high schools is an abiding outrage to those who know that the human development industry of public education have experienced a slow rolling abandonment by America's university and governmental bodies.

Civic ignorance is not the cause of our problems; it is the result of anti-civic capitalists -- globalists with no loyalty to any one country -- who want an ignorant civil society so they can more easily subvert the U.S. Constitution.

The Koch brothers have worked for decades to end civics.

Rebl2

(13,611 posts)
3. When I was
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 09:17 AM
Jun 2018

in junior high in the early 1970’s we had to take civics in 8th and I think 9th grade. We also had to pass a test regarding our state as well as it’s constitution if I remember correctly. I have a feeling that’s not required any longer unfortunately.

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