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cyclonefence

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2. In WV back in the 50s and 60s

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Thu Jul 6, 2017, 06:04 PM

Jul 2017

civics was taught in junior high school as a required course; in high school there was an elective called Problems of Democracy. We had American History but no course on government in elementary school.

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Question: Which cities and states have Civics taught in K-6th? [View all] BigmanPigman Jul 2017 OP

My recollection from the Pleistocene Era, when I was in school, The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2017 #1

In WV back in the 50s and 60s cyclonefence Jul 2017 #2

Jr. High and high school in New York elleng Jul 2017 #3

In my experience as an educator, administrator, and parent of 3 in Texas, "civics" is addressed in a MedusaX Jul 2017 #4

In the early 1960s we had Civics in Junior High. Golden Raisin Jul 2017 #5