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I was at a pretty typical city public school ~>15 years ago. Even then we didn't really have "civics" as it were. Interesting contrasts we have here, eh? I wen

by dvtrn 8y ago

I was at a pretty typical city public school ~>15 years ago. Even then we didn't really have "civics" as it were. Interesting contrasts we have here, eh? I went to a public HS in a hyper-rural area in the deep south. Law and Government I & II were classes required by juniors and then seniors respectively. My expectation was that city schools would definitely have these courses, it's interesting to learn in your case they didn't.

Jtsummers 8y ago
It's state-by-state, usually. The curriculum in GA and NV (both states I went to High School in) in the 90s required a US history course and a civics course. In NV it was "US Government", a senior course (typically). In GA it was, in my district, just "Civics" and was one semester, sharing the year with a baby Economics course (which was really more personal finance than economics). School districts have some leeway to add additional courses, or to alter the typical order of them. For instance, that civics course in GA could've been a one year senior level course in a neighboring district. But the civics course was required across the state at the time.