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View submission: The Mental Gymnastics is Infuriating
Several times a year I have to correct people who think schools don't teach civics. Most of the time it's because their state has named it something else.
Comment by ChewieBearStare at 08/03/2025 at 23:27 UTC
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Our school is teaching juniors how to read pay stubs and fill out a 1040. None of them pays any attention. I fully expect them to be on FB 15 years from now saying “Why don’t schools teach kids how to do taxes?!”
Comment by Professional-Rent887 at 08/03/2025 at 20:29 UTC
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A lot of mouth breathers say they want “civics” but really just want rightwing indoctrination. Then in the next breath they screech about “woke” indoctrination (whatever that means).
Comment by ARayofLight at 08/03/2025 at 23:03 UTC
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Only eight states and the District of Columbia require a full year of high school civics education. One state (Hawai`i) requires a year and a half; thirty-one states half a year; and ten states little or none. And if you are somehow reassured at all by these numbers, don’t be, as the breadth and depth of what is taught is so uneven.
As someone in the states which only requires a half year (CA), I'd still like more time for it.
Comment by AlphaIronSon at 08/03/2025 at 21:03 UTC
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Because for them civics is short for civility i.e. how to function in a way that we are OK with/to our interests.
A government class teaches how govt is supposed to work.
A civics (as they envision) is how you get the government to do what you want. The question is who the you in question is.