They seriously need to teach election process in schools -

[Mother Of Four]

It needs to be part of curriculum.
They need to learn about parties, the nomination process, what caucus, open, closed, semi closed and others mean. They need to learn about qualifications for the different offices, what a naturalized citizen is, what states have what type of nomination process, how the electoral vote works, the options of funding etc etc etc

I've probably taught a good 6 young adults about how to vote this primary alone.
They had no clue, I was appalled. I've been taking my kids to the booth since the time they could read.

Fortunately I didn't tick off any of their parents in the process (sighs)

I don't think it will ever happen with the situation we have now though, they WANT us to be uninformed.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Watch the movie "Idiocracy".

Yes, we have been purposely dumbed down.
That's why we accepted W as President. Twice. Argh.

[woodsprite]

2. Thankfully they do in the school our daughter and son attends.

But I think it's only in the American Government and Politics AP course, not every history course. What they need to require is a general Civics class for all students. Both of my kids needed to volunteer for a campaign and do some work, then write about their experience. My daughter volunteered for Obama/Biden, and my son has been phonebanking for Sanders. I get involved as well, which kindof leaves my hubby out of some dinner table conversations.

[MineralMan]

3. It's not on the tests, so it's no longer taught.

It was part of my public school education, though. We learned all of it, including how to understand political conventions. Every time there was an election, it became part of the curriculum and we learned how it happened. We also studied the US and state constitutions. We compared the constitution to how things like Congress operated, too, and learned about Robert's Rules of Order, so we could understand how such organizations held sessions.

But, then, I went to public school between 1950 and 1963. I guess things were different then. We learned about being citizens and participants in our own society back then.

But, it's not part of the standardized testing any longer, so it's no longer part of the curriculum, I guess. Too bad.

[pdsimdars]

4. Why spoil young minds with that nonsense?

[snowy owl]

5. Rules change a lot. States have different rules. Big task. Why not standardize and include everyone?

If democracy isn't national, what is?

[Lucinda]

6. if they aren't teaching civics anymore, they definitely should be... n/t