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Educating on important stuff
There are many people in here smarter than me. There are teachers, lawyers, and doctors I'm sure. I have a question to pose to all of you.
Why do we keep hearing about how people in this country know so little about civics and the constitution and yet there doesn't seem to be a movement to change things on the local level.
I think its high time to push through local education reform to increase credit requirements in civics, citizenship, the U.S. Constitution and The Founding Fathers. Even back in the middle ages when I was in high school we spend a couple of weeks on the first 100 years of our country. That's ridiculous. 1700 to 1800 were the formative years of this country. There should be no less than one full semester on the constitution, its meaning and intentions, and a full semester dedicated to the founding fathers. There should also be at least a full semester spent on civics, government, and the responsibilities that come with citizenship. Of course liberals would fight this because to them the more ingorance the better. If we pushed these ideas the country would change drastically in the next 20 years. For the better I believe.
Why do we keep hearing about how people in this country know so little about civics and the constitution and yet there doesn't seem to be a movement to change things on the local level.
I think its high time to push through local education reform to increase credit requirements in civics, citizenship, the U.S. Constitution and The Founding Fathers. Even back in the middle ages when I was in high school we spend a couple of weeks on the first 100 years of our country. That's ridiculous. 1700 to 1800 were the formative years of this country. There should be no less than one full semester on the constitution, its meaning and intentions, and a full semester dedicated to the founding fathers. There should also be at least a full semester spent on civics, government, and the responsibilities that come with citizenship. Of course liberals would fight this because to them the more ingorance the better. If we pushed these ideas the country would change drastically in the next 20 years. For the better I believe.
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Permalink Reply by Frank McKinney on -
Awesome topic! There are some of us at the grassroots level trying to address this issue. We are facilitating courses on the U.S. Constitution using material produced by the Institute on the Constitution (www.iotconline.com).
By getting more and more folks educated on the basic principles upon which this country/government was founded, we can then address individual issues with principle-based arguments.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Collins on -
My question there would be, how much time is spent on the founding documents and the Founding Fathers. I know in a typical 1 or 2 year US history class you go from 1492 to 1800 in just a couple of weeks. The founding documents need to be taught from the perspective of the founding fathers and their original intent. Ideas like "seperation of church and state", the "commerce clause", and others have since been so changed that teaching them without context would be meaningless.
Sherry Reynolds said:Virginia schools still require for graduation one full year of Virginia and U.S. Government in twelfth grade.
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Permalink Reply by Ray Waddell on -
I would urge discussion members to become thoroughly acquainted with A. B. (Dick) Howard's, “Commentaries On The Virginia Constitution”, at least Volume 1. No instructions in our “foundation” should be taught without juxtaposition with this treatise. I kid you not! James Madison’s Notes on the Convention are a must too!
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