Civics and public education

[madamesilverspurs]

Mine was in 1962, ninth grade, and Civics was a required course.

When was your last public education Civics class?

[LWolf]

1. It started at the beginning of this month, the day after Labor Day.

As it does every year. Except that I'm not a student, I'm a teacher, and it's not a separate class, but a portion of the humanities classes I'm teaching.

In public middle school classes.

[elleng]

4. Good, and THANK YOU.

[femmocrat]

2. Eleventh grade.

In the 1960s, it was called "Problems of Democracy" or P.O.D. I don't remember learning about the problems, just memorizing a bunch of facts and figures about the structure of the government.

[elleng]

3. Same as yours, probably,

'social studies,' high school senior year, 1962. My daughters DID have similar studies in high school, but not 'public.'

[dumbcat]

5. I also had social studies all through school

To the twelfth grade. It was history, civics and geography for us. We also had English every year, primarily literature through high school, as we had learned grammar and spelling earlier. This was in the mid 60's.

A poster above mentioned he teaches Humanities. We didn't have anything called that. I wonder what it includes, and how much?

[LWolf]

6. She.

"She" teaches humanities. Humanities is an integrated course that includes language arts and social studies.

So...reading, writing, listening, speaking, thinking, history, geography, current events, and civics.

[dumbcat]

10. Thank you. When I was in HS

we had one period (50 min.) of English each day and one period of Social Studies. It was the same for all four years of my HS. (Also had a period of Math, Science, Spanish and one elective each day.)

How long is a typical Humanities class each day? Would it be equivalent to the two hours I had each day for English and Social Studies? I'm just wondering how much things have changed in almost 50 years.

[LWolf]

13. My classes are 90 minutes long.

Which is a good thing, since we have so many different things to do. Not quite two of your class periods.

[X_Digger]

7. US Government, senior year, 1989.

Since then..

American History, in college, 1991.
Philosophical Underpinnings of the American Revolution, in college. Umm.. 1992? (Really neat course with a major focus on the Enlightenment. If you want to understand the Bill of Rights, you need to study Locke and Rousseau.)

[99Forever]

8. Junior year, I think.

Long time ago, 1969-70, if I remember correctly.

[LeftyMom]

9. Any number of college courses, or senior year Government in the late 90s. nt

[logosoco]

11. Right around the time the SC gave the election to bush...

I was taking a Constitution class for my AA. I took it as an elective because it is always good to know about the Constitution.
I have "Constitutional Competence" for the state of Missouri, whatever that means!
My kids, last one graduated high school in 2013, did not take a simple "civics" course that I recall, but I made sure they were being informed and I told them over and over again they have to pay attention and not just to the mainstream news. I am very thankful to the internet.

[H2O Man]

12. Recommended.

I went to a small public school, in rural upstate New York. Between the 5th grade and graduating, I had a number of outstanding teachers; we weren't offered a specific "civics" class, but were offered valuable lessons in all of our social studies classes.