Posted on 01/16/2015 3:30:27 AM PST by dynachrome
Should Arizona require high school students to pass a civics test to earn a diploma?
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A hundred question test and you only have to score sixty to pass.
I think thirty percent of the kids could pass the quiz in the ninth grade and already get this out of the way. Maybe it might be a good feature...but I’d put economic knowledge at the same level. We have so many idiots who don’t know how to handle credit or debt....getting deep into debt, or signing their name to legal documents that they simply don’t understand. There’s other things which ought to be put onto some kind of test....not just civics.
Should Arizona require high school students to pass a civics test to earn a diploma?
Yes ....... 85% 1512
No...... 15% 269
Total Votes:.......1781
Way back in 1965 in RI we had to take civics the first half of the year and Problems in Democracy the second half of the year. One day the student teacher taught a class in favor of Communism. He walked up and down the row of desks and told us the benefits of Communism as opposed to the problems of Democracy. So yes I think civics should be taught but considering the leftist slant in today’s curriculum one has to wonder what will actually be taught.
Yes they should.
How one earth can a person vote if they don’t know civics?
Yes, imagine a civics test that the NEA or Common Core would devise.
I’ve heard of other states with similar problems. A lesson plan has been available since 1791. It is called the Bill of Rights. It would be tougher for commies to turn the class into a marxist love-fest.
Yes 88% 2127
No 12% 289
Total Votes: 2416
Should Arizona require high school students to pass a civics test to earn a diploma?
Yes
88% 2171
No
12% 291
Total Votes: 2462
We were required to pass a civics test to graduate from grade school.
The school year is 180 days. Each civics class would be 45 minutes. That’s 135 hours of civics. My guess on how it would be broken down:
60 hours - the history of government (divine right of kings, magna carta etc..)
20 hours - What is Capitalism and why it fails
20 hours - What is Communism and why we were wrong to oppose it
20 hours - What is Socialism and why that’s really best for everyone
15 hours - How evil banksters caused The Great Recession and why the government was right to bail them out
Wait...that has nothing to do with civics? Oh well.
I had to take civics in high school and I had to pass it so why not?
Passing such a test ought to be a requirement for voting, as well.
(Took the test on that page, scored 100%, although I had a brain fade on the total number of amendments, and guessed.)
Looks pretty lopsided. I don’t know anything about the site so I’m not sure if this is unusual.
Yes 90% 2922
No 10% 324
Total Votes: 3246
Yoiks. Must be a conservative site. haha.
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