rumitoid wrote:
I think you hit on something big, lindajoy. Civic classes as prominent and central to every level of education. Yet of greater depth and reach, exploring the whole facet of our responsibility to uphold the Constitution and how to act as an active citizen of democracy, while also learning about immigration and the rule of law. History of the United States in details about all the struggles for liberty. No one gets to HS without passing a basic Civics test.
Thank You, rumi.. I whole heartedly agree with you...Why civics was ever eliminated is beyond me and as we see now or in the last three Decades at least it has lost out to Social Studies or American history not near in depth in true teaching..
I believe A certain state just recently adopted a bill, can you imagine having to write a bill, where civics, Constitution will be brought back into the classes.. I remember reading it and thinking finally!
This speaks of what you said and I believe it should be required in high school snd first year college entrance!!
If you graduated from a four-year college in South Carolina and didn’t take a class on the U.S. Constitution, your degree is worthless, according to state law.
That law, which has been in place for decades, hasn’t been enforced, and many colleges aren’t following it. But some S.C. lawmakers want to change that.
The REACH Act, sponsored by Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Berkeley, would require all college students receiving a bachelor’s degree or higher to complete three credit hours of a class that includes reading and studying the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers. An amendment to the law, proposed by Sen. Floyd Nicholson, D-Greenwood, would also require that class to include the Emancipation Proclamation and how slavery relates to the constitution.
The law would not apply to two-year colleges and technical schools....
https://amp.thestate.com/news/local/article225005290.html