we need a national mandate of age-appropriate civics classes starting in kindergarten and ending in the senior year of high school.
No. Not just no, hell no. We need to close public schools and allow parents decide. Vouchers that can be redeemed in any school that is certified to teach kids to read and write and do sums. (Maybe a computer literacy requirement?)
They can teach Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, wickenism, Howard Zinn civics or Pat Buchanan. I do not care, as long as the product is numerate and literate. Kids will shed indoctrination if taught to think for themselves.