How can teachers teach about govt and constitution today? Eg, how bills become laws?

[bobbieinok]

There's the way it supposedly works that I learned in Jr-high and high-school in the 50s.

And how Trump, Mitch, and GOP are doing things today.

[Qutzupalotl]

1. It's easy now. The president/king decrees a thing

and his subordinate lackeys in Congress make it happen.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. I learned basic civics in 6th grade...

nothing that I remember in jr. high and a bit more in HS. Deeper dive in college poli sci classes.

You would have to teach a class on the rules of Congress to really understand how bills become laws I would think.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. So many high schools have totally done away with basic civics.

Economics, Political Science are not even electives any more, especially in red states.

[UTUSN]

4. Yip, all out the window - TURTLE stopping bills until SHITLER approves is a travesty.

TURTLE has done everything to obliterate the precepts of government: By holding the bills, he is obliterating the concept of co-equal branches of government, is saying that SHITLER has complete dominance over the Congress. And stacking the judiciary means dominance over there, too. Just by stopping the nomination of GARLAND is another obliteration.

We're in POST-Constitution, in tyranny with rule by dictum.

[anarch]

5. I remember "Schoolhouse Rock" being where I first learned about (what used to be) the process

Russ-publicans have killed American Democracy.

[Golden Raisin]

6. I don't think "Civics" courses (as you and I remember them)

exist today or certainly are not prevalent in many schools' curricula. It's actually a huge problem as we are raising a future electorate ignorant of the Constitution and therefore not even knowing when their rights are being usurped, taken away or chiseled down. We had 'Civics' in Junior High and then a class called 'American Government' in Senior year (which actually included a student trip to Washington, D.C.)