Reply #74: We need to teach civics in our schools [View All]

Children need to feel the spirit of the Founding Fathers all around them and have civics taught by people who are excited about it and pass that excitement off to our children to inspire them to become involved in the Democratic process. People do not vote because they do not feel inspired anymore ( and I can't really blame them,) and by us not teaching civics/voting procedures/the Constitution etc. to our children in a specific curriculum designed to spark that flame, we will only continue the viscious cycle of indifference and the continuation of a status quo that stifles that spirit. They will only emulate what they see, or rather, don't see. And I think above all, we have to tell truth to our children. They will not know otherwise what they are up against now unless we do that and let them know that we stand with them in shaping a new world for all of us. We do need a Renaissance to take place in this country, but that will only happen now by our own hand.