Nearly half of Americans surveyed don't know what America 250 commemorates

[Igel]

4. I'm assuming that you're talking Texas.

Social studies gets the Declaration and Constitution worked in with history classes in middle school. Then HS is world geography, world history, US history, and for seniors a half-year of basic economics (complete with supply-demand graphs, playing a faux stock market, learning about stock trades and even shorting a stock) and the other half-year is Government, where they go through not just the Constitution, title by title, then amendments from first to last, structure of government, separation of powers, and major SCOTUS cases.

Thing is, since the students don't think any of that shit is worth really learning, they cram for the test if not just cheat their way through it and otherwise have what one master teacher called a 'flash drive memory'--turn off the power and the data are lost.

I will say, sadly, that some of the Gov teachers love their topic and really do try to teach it. But some of them are coaches and consider all the classroom crap to be a distraction from their real full time job, coaching--whether football, baseball, wrestling. (And the footballers have the same attitude--they'd sit and watch football plays, of their team or others, all day because they're all NFL bound.)