A lot of native-born adult 'Murkins can't pass it.

Reeks of racism. Bet those bozos making the rules couldn't pass a US citizen test

I have no problem requiring students to pass tests to graduate. But it isn't a "citizenship" test. Perhaps a civics test? Perhaps a math or reading test? Unbiased and equitably dispersed? Maybe.

The bright side here is that statistically children of immigrants can pass these tests at a much higher rate than their multi-generation citizen counterparts. This should get interesting.

Now they'd first have to teach most people what the word "civics" means.


Typically if a test is required for graduation, it's required at all public schools for graduation. In most states, also required at private schools for graduation.

The only exceptions are those students with mods as part of an IEP. Even then, more and more states are disposing of modified standardized exit-level tests.


It doesn't matter, children of immigrants versus others. They'd have a couple of years phase-in during which time every school district would develop their own in-house list of questions then hire consultants to complete them. They'd have a required class to get the kids to memorize those 200 answers or so and be done with it.

I watched a very successful ESL class that had a citizenship class on the side. There were people who were going to be recycled into the 1st year language class for a second and third year who aced their citizenship test. They had no idea what they were saying. They repeated the answers like I at one time could recite several psalms in Hebrew without knowing even enough Hebrew to say "My name is Igel, what is yours?" or count to 5. (Heck, without being able to count to 2. I had also memorized the sh'ma.)

The simplest way to increase knowledge of civics is to mandate teaching modules for students as part of social studies or history curricula.
Testing as a barrier to high school completion does not benefit the students.

So they know their rights when they enter the workforce.

Many of whom seem to be lacking basic knowledge of what this country stands for.

-- Mal

Considering that this is Arizona, it may not be implemented well or fairly, but there are far too many US citizens that don't understand the basics of how our government is supposed to work, the checks and balances that a built into the constitution and so forth. Even on DU, I often see posts that make me wonder if we shouldn't start requiring Civics classes for everyone.

Not enough pay.