We have much to "RELEARN" and how to re-groom ourselves and our society, As To and About; how to live as honorably people, who are just and to build a system of ethnic based justice.
In the 1970's our schools were damaged greatly when legislation's impacted our society, which led to the diminishing of "Civic's" being taught in our schools. We lost that education value of what it is to be a "Citizen" in this Democracy and this United States.
The Far Right - wanted it removed, because it was post Civil Right Era, and for that learning to be promoted for a non segregated people, to learn how to further fight for rights and liberty in this nation, it did not like the move of Civil Rights nor of Women Rights, and the Many Rights of the Previously disenfranchised. IF people were to be unlearned about our system, they too were to be unlearned about our voting rights, unlearned about how voting districts function and unlearned about how our political and Civic system functions. Those of the Far Left moved as well, to avert the learning of Civics with a claim of wanting unconstrained freed without Civic responsibility as they considered people were being groomed for War Services. The element of the Vietnam War was a great impacting tragedy upon the American people, and people were distraught at the many lives were being destroyed and taken away in a war no one could explain. Later, the Pentagon Papers surfaced, exposing the mess, it future impacted the minds of people, and moved us even further from the education of Civics. On the Far Right, they become more enraged and wanted to lay blame upon the elements of cultural and ethnic integration. when bare premise and fact is, 'we ceased to "teach coming youth and the next generation about what it is to be of Civic Understanding and Learning in how to learn Civics as to the individual in a Democracy System of these United States.
Civics is about more than just how our System is designed, it is about the civil nature of what it takes to live within a Democratic system.
Former Senator Bob Graham has long championed a push for Civic Education to be Returned to Our Schools.
Since the removal of Civics from being centered in our Educational System, we've seen a continual erosion of our society and a widening disintegration of our social continuity. One does not grow up with inherent learning as to how to live in Civil society, it is a process of learning. We seem to have forgotten that very important point.
instead we have allowed money to become our focus in every aspect, and as a result, EVERYTHING in America has declined. Ethics have been disregarded and eroded and made void.
If we want to fix American we have to start at these levels of Education, and move back to what we once knew, and education our young in what is American Democracy and Teach the Civics, to education people how to live in a Civic system as civil beings in a Democracy.