Vivek Ramaswamy declares US high schoolers 'should be required' to pass basic civics test

@Corporalcolleague wow...thank you. that took a turn I didnt expect. but thank you again. yes i do believe sex belongs in the home and yes sadly the parents don't do a good job of it

@akindheart
I agree that current educational system is suboptimal but I blame the helicopter parents for the problems. Heavens forbid that their precious little entitled brats are held accountable for performance and civil behaviour. Teachers and administrators are bombarded by parents and the associated lawyers demanding that little Johnny be promoted just for showing up most days.
And now they need to contend with book banners who are trying to shove the dictates of the Southern Baptist hypocrites ( and other pseudo religions) down everyone's throats.

As for cursive it is obsolete. The Guttenberg press was invented to replace cursive but it has taken until now to fully achieve its goal. Common electronic devices have eliminated the need for cursive. Text prevents us from struggling to interpret bad handwriting.

I believe the biological aspects of sex should be taught in high school. The moral aspects should be a parental function. My wife had to listen to too many young women claim they could not be pregnant because they only did it once or he pulled out. The amount of ignorance about sex in our society is staggering.

@jim44444 absolutely agree.

@jim44444 Given what graduates out of our high schools or enters higher education ( how?) it’s a new course of study…DUMB ASSES 101’

@SheCallsMeCrushDaddy most kids will rise to whatever bar is set or fail and then be required to keep at it until they meet the standard

@SW-User I learned more about civics from 1) Boy scouts 2) being taken to national parks, museums, battlefields, etc 3) having aware parents that I could ask questions. What I learned in school about civics was supplemental to what I had learned elsewhere. The kids whose parents didn't enrich them were baffled on the some of the most basic topics.

@BizSuitStacy Gee, where did you grow up? For me it was always Social Studies, which civics (or government) was a part of. So "social studies" was American History one year, World history another year, Government/economics another year. You are saying that civics was every year, in addition to history and economics?

@trollslayer [quote]For me it was always Social Studies[/quote]
That explains your need for extra tin foil

@trollslayer [quote] While we joke, this isn't a problem with one party -[/quote]

No one is joking.
It's a problem with the education system - which largely ignores civics.
The fact that educators, union members and academia in general are democrats is simply a point of interest.