Kids need to know our core laws, their rights and responsibilities as a citizen.
Every kid should be brought up by family and community. They should know their roll and responsibilities in each to sustain their community. We all should have our roll in sustaining our families and communities #Localism
In addition to basic core classes - math, reading, writing… all knowledge should be reviled and no more lies about our history. We all need to have full knowledge and history… Our kids need to be taught to think, problem solve and create. Not memorize and test and test to test…
On top of that, each student should be taught life skills and or a career skills.
Hear hear! Agreed. This sort of education was removed from our schools by none other than the EPA (which should be ultimately dismantled on the grounds of being antithetical to American values, and completely in the business of indoctrination vs. education). Time to move the EPA and the rabid socialist teachers aside, and get our youth back to the basics of being intelligent, problem-solving, critical-thinking, well-educated social-conscious, upstanding Americans, deserving of our proud next-generations to come). They should know their unrevised past as well as their more-obvious present, in order to prepare for a more foreseeable future.
Also some sort of financial and economics class would be helpful to combat the socialist ideas that capitalism is bad, self-employment vs. other employment, why your credit score matters, how to set up a budget, how to get out of debt, Dave Ramsey vs Robert Kyasaki philosophies, etc.
Personally, I want education as far away from bureaucrats as it can get and firmly in the hands of parents and who they choose to trust. School choice and all that. The one thing I will agree with is civics. As long as you restrict that subject to the exact form of our government and the terminology of its official documents, it can be objective enough that you can measure whether it’s being taught without worrying about the next bureaucrat injecting their worldview into it.
Celebrating Constitution Day on September 17th is mandated by federal law and 90% of public schools do not follow this law. I just did this in Maine in my grandson’s 5th grade class last month and provided a Constitution for the entire school K-5. One complaint of allowing a “rightwing hategroup” in the schools was lodged with the Superintendent. I’m hoping to repeat this next year but now not sure if it will be allowed since I’m told a parent’s group has formed against the idea?
Given that President Trump has vowed to put education back on the states and not the federal gov’t, who knows what will still be standing by next Sept. It will be interesting to see.
I agree the States should be responsible. The Dept of Education should be very limited to being a resource of best practices for teachers, programs for civics and Life Skills from grades Pre K-12. However, I do believe that the Congress should vote on a law that requires US history and Constitution and civics in each grade from K-12. Also Life Skills (money management, investments, cooking, home maintenance, CPR/healthy living) from middle school -12th. Our kids are money illiterate and do not know the first thing about independent living, ) Home Economics of the 60’s taught life skills-both my boys gained valuable skills taking the class all years of junior high.