Civic Education

[Jonathan Buhacoff]

Proposal:

All students should have an opportunity to learn about civics so they understand their rights and obligations and can fully participate in society including in elections.

Discussion:

Civic education includes the rights and duties of citizens in society and the role, authority, and limits of government.

Civic education also includes learning about modes of oppression so that students learn to how to recognize and resist them. Modes of oppression are forms of government, societal structures, and behaviors that are opposed to freedom such as authoritarianism, cults, and slavery.

Students who are interested in achieving more should have an opportunity to study more advanced topics such as forms of government, history and patterns of government, and comparison of civics around the world.

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