How’s your civics knowledge?
by Buck B. • Nov 21st, 2008 at 10:03 am • 4 comments
I thought this quiz was and its results were pretty cool. Embarrassingly, I got two wrong: No. 10 (brain fart) and No. 33 (kind of a dumb question, if you ask me).
I’ve never understood why civics was eliminated from high scroll curricula. Along with making Election Day a national holiday, it’s probably the easiest and best step we could take toward a more involved and educated citizenry. We devote a whole semester to teaching students to drive, but can’t spend a few hours on how to vote.
Anyone actually have a civics class, in high school or otherwise?
Comment by Brandon on 21 November 2008 at 12:57 pm:
I missed three. Surprisingly not the ones that I thought were overly ambiguous. I had high school civics.
Comment by Joshua on 21 November 2008 at 8:52 pm:
I missed two, that I considered sort of ambiguous. We didn’t have a high school civics class, and even the “social studies” classes that we had were nonsense. The football coach was our teacher and for every test he would do a “review session” where he would read the questions in order, and then tell us what the answer was, and we would discuss the answer a little bit. Then the next day on the test we could use scratch paper. You could literally just write:
1. MLK Jr
2. Jefferson
3. Henry Clay
etc, on the sheet of paper, use it on the test and get 100. And some people still failed.
Comment by Gordon the Gnome on 22 November 2008 at 10:53 am:
I missed 5. I feel like a moron, particularly when it comes to the Supreme Court. (No civics class here.)
Comment by Tom Trumpinski on 22 November 2008 at 10:02 pm:
Missed three–11, 32, and 33. My last civics class was in Spring of 1966, so I figure they did a permanent welding job. The guy that taught it was the same guy who read the Gettysburg Address in the Civil War cemetary every year.
Tom