That’s the problem I have when people argue for the important ace of rigorous high school civics: the useful parts won’t prove to be useful until several years

That’s the problem I have when people argue for the important ace of rigorous high school civics: the useful parts won’t prove to be useful until several years after graduation, so even a motivated student has ample time to forget (and the students know they’ll forget, so there’s even less motivation to learn in the first place)