yay!

about time

This is so reflective of the truth that the NYTimes might want to pick it up.

I would love to see civics returned to the curriculum.

A fully informed citizenry is an antithesis of the military/industrial/pharmaceutical/corporate goals towards total control and maximised profits through the use of toxic foods, drugs (both legal and illegal) endlessly created wars, private fiat based manipulated currency and other onslaughts against the people.

Civics study of the Constitutional is futile now, since President Obama has corrected the obstacles in it to his quest for power — I mean, the constraints in the document which he said were regrettable — so that the Constitution is now a dead letter, as dead as the Weimar one. So, what’s the big deal?

Civics was one of my favorite classes. Kids today are missing out about the FACTS about our great country! Yay!!!!

Let me clarify - I don’t mean “Yay” to kids missing out, I say “Yay!!!!” to kids getting to learn Civics, again. And while we are at it, there should be some community education refresher courses, as well.

Yes, we can.

Perhaps civics classes should also be required for all those who would hold government office … a number of campaign promises made by candidates (of the two major parties as well as a few lesser known) for many offices simply cannot be accomplished from the position that the candidate was running for.

It’s really sad that civics has been removed from the curriculum. We are going to have a nation of Sarah Palins on our hands in the future.

Thank goodness, the future depicted in the film “Idiocracy” is already here! Make the Obama administration keep the promise, much needed move!

Civics as it has been defined aint useful enough; Teach political sciences and philosophy of politics to make people really aware… Do your best at not painting foes as you see them but as they paint themselves.

The western philosophies of freedom and individuality are more powerful than any man made institution. Teach your friends and kids the meaning and values that our forefathers longed and died for. Once they get a hunger for freedom they will educate themselves whatever way they can to protect it.

I’ve learned almost everything I know about global affairs, economics, and politics from talking to people and researching on my own, not the Federally regulated “educational” system. Our public education system is a joke. We rank 19.

Our public education system is a joke, i know people my age(22) who didn’t know how to vote much less how our government works…or doesn’t work *cry*
hopefully Obama can start to fix our broken government

Let’s hope that Sarah Palin is the first one to sign up. And as a prerequisite she should be required to go back and retake the last three grades of grammar school.

bankers and corps own all those kids, they can grow up and be civics leaders to work for them, yay, teach that in school

The actor Richard Dreyfus made this point often and eloquently, and completed studies at Oxford in furthuring the notion that civics is an essential ingredient of democratic societies.

“The western philosophies of freedom and individuality” LMAO…
You can never reach far with those two alone… Maybe you could develop an amoral psychopath… Individuality aínt a philosophy, it is an attitude or a property depending on perspective… And freedom aint a philosophy either, it is a value… But there are more values needed in the mix and a knowledge of world history to understand the attitudes behind the values…

Can the writer of #6 explain his letter a bit more fully?

“Civics study of the Constitutional is futile now, since President Obama has corrected the obstacles in it to his quest for power — I mean, the constraints in the document which he said were regrettable — so that the Constitution is now a dead letter, as dead as the Weimar one. So, what’s the big deal?”

Not that the right has any explanation for what it says,. but it is always worth seeking, if only to reaffirm our democratic principles.

Comment on November 13, 2008 12:17 pm

Bruce Budy: Please go gently on Ed Cline. He is under the care of an American, government-dominated health care system which is apparently screwing with his mind (and maybe other effects as well). This information is based on his post in “Public Health Opportunities in Cuba” (see).
Mr. Cline, an otherwise well informed poster (let’s be polite here), apparently is not conscious of who he is, what day it is, or which country he lives in. He seems to believe he is already living in Cuba, or some other country with socialized medicine. It is estimated that about 50% of Americans suffer from this same malady. So we have a lot of work to do to get the word out.
I hope this relieves you of some of your concerns about our dear, fellow reader.

I was almost certain thatcivics had been brainwashed from the people of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA for ever. That I was of the last class. This is very encouraging news.
MR. REID Well put.
MR. CLINE MR. OBAMA has about 30 sec. to start Treason charges against ALL who have been soo guilty of it from square one to date. NO pardons. We: just may be able to work with him.
MS. BRENDA Good idea. Add, perhaps, a squirt of Chem true story.
Teacher I believe…. WE: can get them back.
CALIFORNIA GIRL WE: can change it. Get UP and Make it happen.
MR. BURK I will attend MR. DRYFUSS class if you will. I need a freshener in English and Grammar as well.
WE: have 300 million people in this country. I beleive WE: can change this country back to from whence it came. And prepare for a good future at home and in the world.
Let U.S. be off, then. WE: Have a long way to go.

The restoration of civics indeed would be welcome news. With the expansion of power of the federal Department of Education, we can now expect all American schoolchildren, from Fort Kent in Maine to Honolulu, to acquire critical thinking approaches to government and politics. It should be clear that with almost half of voters choosing McCain-Palin despite the obvious correctness of votes for Obama-Biden, that something was seriously amiss in the educations of voters.

A remarkably diverse collection of experts developed the wonderfully detailed curriculum. They included the editors of The Nation magazine, faculty members from Duke University, people appointed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (who will remain anonymous), Shabazz Muhammad al-Rashid, the last resident of the former Sing Sing Correctional Facility (formerly Prison), before that was abolished because of a court finding that it unfairly discriminated against its residents and they were set free, and numerous other experts on the New Thinking, drawn from throughout the world.

Many teachers will eagerly adopt the new curriculum. Those who do not will be immediately replaced. Each classroom will benefit from two monitors who will take detailed notes of what is said and done and written in the class, in order to ensure the best compliance with the intricately detailed commands of the new civics curriculum. More details on the monitors will be announced.

We have the change Americans want and need.

Will they also learn about the 2d Amendment, or will that be quickly skimmed over?