Well, I’m 76. I was not just taught Civics, in my time, it was common knowledge. Like speaking correctly, you just absorbed it.
My son is now 54. My friend’s child is 40. That’s plenty old.
The school in question is a rural consolidated school in a quiet, flyover area where most people are patriots.
The subversion is everywhere and has been for 2 or more generations.
It isn’t an excuse because we can all search out and read the facts.
I wasn’t saying you railed. I guess we’re all frustrated right now. Something needs to be done and we don’t seem to be able to do a thing. Personally, I’m sick at heart over what’s happening in our country. I’m just trying to hold my own little world together.
If/when schools abrogate their role ( teaching...really teaching children !) then it is up to the parents to do so. Actually parents should be teaching their kids at home; especially filling in the blanks that NO school has EVER completely filled! And it can/should be made fun and yes, even thrilling, for both parents and children to be with one another and just learn about things.
Some examples...when I was very little my grandmother would show me my mother's scrap book, from when she was little, that they did together. It was filled with all kinds of VERY interesting things...from just old magazine illustrations to little squibs about such things as Franklin's bathtub ( yes there was a drawing of him in the bath ), flying the kite, to a painting of the Lusitania, which was a jumping off point for my grandmother to tell me the factual history behind the painting.
Today there are T.V. programs which can and should spark such "talks"!
Parents do not have to "act" like a teacher and should NOT; they should just talk in a normal way, and/or bring up a topic, when with a child/children. The 4th of July would be a GREAT time to do so, as would many other "holidays"!
Sure parents are busy...THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!