Civics Education

Ethics should be taught in primary and high school. Catch them while they're young and teach them the value of living your life appreciating the rules of conduct, the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. I know these things should also be taught at home but some parents are not capable of removing their biased from their teachings when it comes to their own children. I have made a few errors in this department myself and those mistakes are the hardest to rectify.

Hi Sugar, I do think that American Civics/ government should be taught yet in high school. It's really difficult to get high schoolers to become decent American citizen, and to have them learn more about America, if they aren't taught it. Maybe high schools could put it in the curriculum as a part of the history class? It would fit in. I remember having it as a part of our American history class in high school, along with an American Govt. Class.

probably because it is boring as hell. i hate civics. bored me and wasted my time. i think it should be taught as an elective for the few kids in school who actually enjoy that stuff. usually the ones that like to debate and want to be future lawyers. i dont think most teens care for that garbage.

Absolutely. I am deeply concerned for the long term future of our country. She has been suffering erosion from within for the last 4 decades. I have a lot of immigrant friends who became citizens. One gentlemen, born and raised in Malaysia, took the required courses and the oath and became a citizen. He is a patriot of the first order, and someone I honor deeply as an American citizen. He has a greater love for this country and his new life than anyone I have ever met. He tells me that he learned about what there was to love in our country through these classes, and that these classes led him to want to discover more. So why not our children? Are our children not aliens too? Yes. Are they born with inherent flag waving American blood?... No. And they are going to teach their children about 80% of what they learned from us, as we have only taken a portion of what our parents believed in. What's left in 4 more generations? With this in mind, I feel we need to be teaching our children in school. And while we are at it, let's get prayer, art and music back in. We need creative, faithful people - not just politically correct number crunchers. We have all but eliminated prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance in our schools to appease the few. Partly because of this. The few will become many.