Do our schools even teach civics classes anymore?

[Syrinx]

I've made it a point recently to engage young people that I meet in brief conversations about government and politics.

The ignorance that I have stumbled upon has absolutely amazed me.

Most of these young people, people in high school, don't know what a "veto" is. They don't know what is meant by "separation of powers." Many of them can't even name the three branches of government!

Do our schools even teach basic civics anymore?

It seems to me that these young people can only be so ignorant because our society is being intentionally "dumbed down."

I had always assumed that Leno's "Jay Walking" segment had to be edited in the extreme. I had assumed that there was no way that your average college sophomore doesn't know who the first president of the United States was. I'm not so sure anymore.

EDIT: I've also met a couple of young people that knew a lot more about government and politics than I did!

I'm just saying that I don't think the schools teach that stuff very much anymore, and I wonder if they teach it at all.