“... innovative, engaging curricula...”
Another name for BS. Civics as taught in schools fifty years ago was meant to familiarize all students with how the government worked, at the local, state and Federal level, with discussions about tings like founding documents, mission statements of the various levels of government, the ways of participating in that great edifice by becoming knowledgeable voters, and how to make your voice heard by the legislators and executives. Underscoring it all was the responsibility that goes along the rights of citizenship.
Somewhere along the line, the teaching of civics was abandoned altogether, and youth graduated from high school without the remotest idea of how their government was supposed to function. Now comes all this new theology about worship of the State, and the absolute condemnation of the Great American experiment, and the capitalist society and the religious base upon which it was founded.
Command-and-control regimes are the way to go. Yeah, right.
Those have worked worked so well throughout history. For a few people, everybody else is expendable trash.
“Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the Sixties, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what’s in it...And so, if you don’t know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don’t know what’s in the document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?” - Frank Zappa