Actor Richard Dreyfuss says most of our political problems because we stopped teaching civics in our schools since 1970. He's totally right!

Jun 10, 2017 路 6:35 PM UTC

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Schools in Ala still teach Civics.
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Actually most of our political problems are due to electing a con artist as @POTUS #DonTheCon
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Agreed. My younger coworkers didn't even know we were a republic!
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And social studies is hardly taught in elementary school and becoming less and less important in the upper grades.:(
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Utah requires all seniors to take Government and Citizenship (Civics). A societal standard of ethics is needed--teach the golden rule!
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That and removing School House Rock ;) definitely helped in remembering the preamble, and bill to law
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