According to the 2018 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, only 32 percent of Americans can name all three branches of the U.S. government. Even worse, 33 percent could not correctly name one branch.
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It was bad enough back when I was in high school in the early 1960s. In those civics classes, the girls were too busy gossiping to pay attention, and the guys were too busy trying to look up the cheerleaders’ skirts (or down their blouses) to care about “government.”
My wife taught for thirty years, and says the attention spans of students are even worse these days.
This suits the liberals perfectly, the motto being:
“Keep ’em ignorant, and keep ’em Democrat.”
I love reading articles like this written by people so naive they actually seem to think this is not by design. The whole purpose of the public education system is not to create an educated mind that is capable of individual thought, rather it is to teach subservience to government and dependency.
You know, we formerly had Republican lawmakers in Illinois, who would have combatted this. Cong. Phil Crane built a private school in the NW suburbs and actively advocated for the constitutionalist, free-market ideals – and actively promoted, Hillsdale College.
Cong. Henry Hyde advocated conservative Catholic education.
And what have we had in this generation of GOP office-holders? A gaggle of finger-to-the-wind types like Roskam and Hultgren and Kinzinger and an ever-diminishing slate of state legislative hacks, who, with neither ideas, nor ideals, let this whole infection of our educational system spread – like the bubonic plague.
Any wonder why fewer and fewer of us are expressing undying, knee-jerk fealty to the Illinois Republican voting line?
Clint Westwood writes:
A gaggle of finger-to-the-wind types like Roskam and Hultgren and Kinzinger and an ever-diminishing slate of state legislative hacks, who, with neither ideas, nor ideals, let this whole infection of our educational system spread – like the bubonic plague.
Wow…you so nailed it. Why are you not my Congressman? Darn…why can’t we just once get a Congressman who will fight for conservative principles as vocally as the socialist twits do for theirs?
Clint, can you give me more information on this school Crane started. I searched around for references to it and found nothing but I may be search impaired. Thank you.
As I recall, it was called Westminster Academy – I believe in Northfield. And Phil started it around ’68, before he was elected to Congress in the special election of ’69.
As to how long it lasted, after Phil left – I don’t recall.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
But there was no question that Phil Crane – for whom I ghost wrote at ACU – had genuine ideas and ideals.